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BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES 


OF 


GRADUATES 

OF  YALE  COLLEGE 


INCLUDING  THOSE  GRADUATED  IN 
CLASSES  LATER  THAN  1815,  WHO 
ARE  NOT  COMMEMORATED  IN  THE 
ANNUAL    OBITUARY    RECORDS 


BY 

FRANKLIN  BOWDITCH  DEXTER,  LITT.D. 


ISSUED  AS  A  SUPPLEMENT  TO  THE  OBITUARY  RECORD 
NEW  HAVEN— 1913 


PREFACE 


Biographical  Sketches  of  the  graduates  of  Yale  College 
to  1815  have  already  been  published,  in  six  octavo  volumes; 
and  when  it  became  necessary  to  bring  this  series  of 
Sketches  to  a  close,  the  author  was  requested  by  the  Cor- 
poration of  the  University  to  compile  a  supplementary 
volume,  of  those  deceased  graduates  of  the  College,  of 
Classes  later  than  181 5,  who  have  not  been  included  in  the 
Obituary  Records,  published  annually  since  i860. 

Many  of  the  notices  in  the  volume  thus  compiled  have 
a  certain  sameness,  as  commemorating  those  who  died  too 
soon  to  have  achieved  much ;  while  another  considerable 
group  consists  of  those  who  were  early  lost  sight  of,  or 
whose  distant  residence  has  obscured  their  later  history. 
The  time  which  could  be  given  to  the  task  of  compilation 
has  limited  the  amount  of  research,  but  it  is  hoped  that 
the  results  justify  the  design. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

GRADUATES    OF    YALE    COLLEGE 


.     CLASS    OF    1816 

Reuben  Booth,  son  of  Reuben  H.  and  Sarah  Booth,  was 
born  in  Newtown,  Connecticut,  on  November  26,  1794. 
The  family  removed  to  Kent  in  his  boyhood,  and  he  entered 
Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year.  In  1814  his  father, 
who  was  a  wool-carder,  was  drowned  in  the  Housatonic 
River,  leaving  him  dependent  on  his  own  exertions. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  New  Milford 
with  Judge  David  S.  Boardman  (Yale  1793),  and  after  one 
year  continued  his  studies  with  Moses  Hatch  (Yale  1800), 
while  teaching  in  the  Danbury  Academy.  In  1818  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and  opened  an  office  in  Danbury,  where 
he  remained  through  life.  His  practice  was  large  and 
remunerative,  and  he  also  became  one  of  the  leading  poli- 
ticians of  the  State. 

In  1822  he  represented  the  town  in  the  General  Assembly, 
and  from  that  date  to  1835  he  was  the  Judge  of  Probate  for 
the  Danbury  District.  In  1830  he  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate,  and  in  1844  and  1845  Lieutenant  Governor. 

He  died  in  Danbury  on  August  14,  1848,  in  his  54th  year, 
after  an  illness  of  two  or  three  days. 

He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  David  Belden 
(Yale  1785),  of  Wilton,  who  died  on  February  18,  1844,  at 
the  age  of  45. 

Their  children  were  three  daughters  and  two  sons. 

John  Steinmetz  Brinton,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Hill 
Brinton  (Univ.  Pa.  1790)  and  Sarah  (Steinmetz)  Brinton, 
of  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  July  20,  1798. 
A  sister  married  his  classmate  McClellan. 


2  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  health  began  to  fail  during  his  College  course,  and  this, 
together  with  his  strong  love  of  classical  literature,  delayed 
his  professional  studies.  He  spent  about  a  year  at  Oxford 
University,  and  traveled  on  the  Continent;  but  finally 
began  his  preparation  for  the  bar  in  the  office  of  Jonathan 
W.  Coudy,  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  admitted  to  practice. 

He  married  on  February  26,  1825,  Adelaide,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Alida  Gouverneur,  of  New  York  City.  On  the 
8th  of  the  following  August  she  died  in  Philadelphia,  of 
fever,  and  his  death  from  the  same  fever  followed  on 
August  18,  at  the  age  of  27. 

Epaphras  Chapman,  son  of  Isaac  and  Abigail  (Brooks) 
Chapman,  of  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  April 

25.  1792. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary, where  he  remained  between  one  and  two  years. 

He  then  undertook,  in  the  service  of  the  United  Foreign 
Missionary  Society  of  New  York,  an  exploration  of  the 
southwestern  Indian  country,  with  a  view  to  the  establish- 
ment of  missions.  On  the  strength  of  his  report  in  1819,  a 
mission  to  the  Osages,  in  what  is  now  Oklahoma,  then 
Arkansas  Territory,  was  resolved  upon,  and  the  Rev. 
William  F.  Vaill  (Yale  1806)  and  Mr.  Chapman  were 
appointed  missionaries. 

He  was  married,  on  April  2,  1820,  to  Hannah  Eliza 
Mansfield,  third  daughter  of  Deacon  Solomon  Fowler,  of 
Northford,  in  (North)  Branford,  and  four  days  later  he 
was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  by  the  Presbytery  of  New 
Brunswick. 

He  started  immediately  for  his  mission,  and  labored  zeal- 
ously until  his  death,  after  a  few  days'  illness,  at  the 
missionary  station  named  Union,  on  Grand  River,  January 
7,  1825,  in  his  33d  year. 

His  wife  died  at  her  father's  house  in  June,  1843. 

He  was  a  man  of  great  simplicity  of  character  and  purity 
of  purpose. 


YALE  COLLEGE^  CLASS  OF  1816  3 

William  Pitt  Cleaveland,  the  eldest  child  of  William 
Pitt  Cleaveland  (Yale  1793),  of  New  London,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  May  14,  1797. 

After  teaching  school  for  a  year  in  Virginia,  he  studied 
law  with  his  father,  and  settled  in  practice  in  his  native 
city,  where  he  attained  eminence  before  his  early  death. 

He  married  on  February  19,  1824,  Mary  Sanford,  third 
daughter  of  the  late  James  Scott  Dwight,  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  Mary  (Sanford)  Dwight,  by  whom  he 
had  one  daughter  and  one  son. 

He  died  in  New  London  on  February  5,  1841,  in  his  44th 
year.  His  widow  died  on  November  2,  1854,  in  her  57th 
year. 

Joseph  Lord  Coit,  the  only  son  of  Wheeler  and  Hannah 
(Lord,  Abel)  Coit,  of  that  part  of  Preston,  Connecticut, 
which  is  now  Griswold,  was  born  on  June  14,  1796.  His 
mother  was  a  granddaughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Benjamin 
Lord  (Yale  1714)  ;  and  a  half-sister  married  Thomas  Day 
(Yale  1797). 

He  studied  law  with  Judge  Zephaniah  Swift  (Yale 
1778),  of  Windham,  but  never  practiced.  He  became  a 
manufacturer  in  Preston,  and  died,  unmarried,  in  Jewett 
City,  on  October  15,  1836,  in  his  41st  year. 

John  Alexander  Cuthbert,  the  fifth  child  and  second 
son  of  General  John  Alexander  and  Mary  Dupre  (Hey- 
ward)  Cuthbert,  of  Charleston  and  Beaufort,  South  Caro- 
lina, was  probably  born  in  1797.  A  brother  was  graduated 
in  1813. 

He  settled  on  a  plantation  in  Florida,  and  married  there. 

No  details  of  his  death  are  known. 

George  Younglove  Cutler,  the  youngest  child  of 
Younglove  and  Dothee  (Stone)  Cutler,  of  Watertown, 
Connecticut,  was  bom  on  April  6,  1797.     A  sister  married 


4  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

Holbrook  Curtis  (Yale  1807),  and  a  half-brother  was 
graduated  here  in  1829. 

He  studied  law,  and  entered  on  practice  in  his  native 
place. 

He  married,  on  May  29,  1821,  Mary  Ann  Pomeroy,  only 
daughter  of  Dr.  .^neas  Monson  (Yale  1780),  of  New 
Haven,  and  subsequently  removed  hither. 

Later  he  was  induced  to  engage  in  the  book  business  in 
New  York  City,  with  disastrous  results ;  so  that,  about 
1829,  he  went  West,  and  settled  in  Western  Illinois,  on  the 
Mississippi  River,  at  the  point  later  named  Nauvoo.  Here 
he  established  a  land-agency,  and  was  meeting  with 
deserved  success,  when  he  died  of  bilious  fever,  on  Sep- 
tember 3,  1834,  in  his  38th  year. 

Besides  two  children  who  died  in  infancy,  one  daughter 
survived  him. 

His  widow  married,  on  August  15,  1838,  Daniel  Green 
Whitney,  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  where  she  died  on  July  7, 
1844,  in  her  42d  year. 

Ash  BEL  Dart,  the  eldest  of  fourteen  children  of  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (Hurd)  Dart,  of  Middle  Haddam,  in  Chatham, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  July  15,  1793. 

He  studied  medicine,  with  Dr.  Thomas  Miner  (Yale 
1796)  in  Middletown,  and  in  the  Yale  Medical  School, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  the  spring  of  1818. 
Later,  he  spent  some  time  in  the  New  York  City  Hospital, 
and  then  began  practice,  in  Carthage,  a  village  just  outside 
of  Rochester,  New  York. 

After  a  few  months,  about  1819  or  1820,  he  removed  to 
Conneaut,  in  the  northeastern  corner  of  Ohio,  where  he 
applied  himself  laboriously  and  with  success  to  professional 
business.  He  was  also  active  in  public  matters,  and  for 
one  year  (1833)  served  as  an  Associate  Judge  of  the 
Ashtabula  County  Court.  He  was  also  for  some  years 
Postmaster. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1816  5 

About  1837,  his  health  having  become  somewhat  im- 
paired, he  gave  up  his  practice,  and  was  soon  after  appointed 
superintendent  of  the  pubhc  works  being  constructed  by 
the  Government  at  the  mouth  of  Conneaut  Creek.  He  also 
went  into  mercantile  business. 

On  October  28,  1844,  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis, 
from  the  effects  of  which  he  died,  on  December  8,  in  his 
52d  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Abiel  Booth  Glover  was  born  in  Newtown,  Connecticut, 
on  January  16,  1797. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  his  native  place,  and  on  May 
2,  1822,  married  Maria  Nichols,  of  Newtown. 

He  died  in  Newtown,  on  October  13,  1825,  of  typhus 
fever,  in  his  29th  year. 

He  left  one  son ;  a  daughter  died  in  infancy. 

His  widow  married  Isaac  Bears,  of  Newtown. 

Uriel  Holmes,  Junior,  the  younger  son  of  Judge  Uriel 
Holmes  (Yale  1784),  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  September  15,  1796,  and  entered  Yale  in  181 3. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  at  home,  and  then 
decided  to  enter  the  ministry.  He  began  his  studies  in  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  but  was  obliged  to  return 
home  by  the  rapid  progress  of  consumption.  He  arrived 
in  Litchfield  on  May  18,  1818,  and  died  there  on  July  4,  in 
his  22d  year. 

Charles  John  Johnson  was  born  in  1797-8,  and 
was  prepared  for  Yale  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  His 
mother,  Mrs.  Mary  Johnson,  accompanied  him  to  New 
Haven,  and  took  boarders  here,  as  she  had  also  done  in 
Morristown. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  New  York  and  died  there  on 
April  6,  1843,  ^t  the  age  of  45. 


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He  married  Mary  Noel,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Neilson 
(Princeton  Coll.  1/93),  of  New  York,  who  survived  him, 
without  children,  and  died  on  October  24,  1863,  in  her 
61  St  year. 

John  Henry  Kain,  son  of  John  Kain,  was  born  in 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  about  1796. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
Philadelphia,  and  began  practice  in  his  native  place. 

In  August,  1819,  he  married  Eliza,  third  daughter  of 
Elisha  and  Mary  (Wright)  Boardman,  of  New  Haven. 

From  Knoxville  he  removed  to  Shelbyville,  also  in  Ten- 
nessee; but  returned,  perhaps  about  1834,  to  New  Haven, 
where  he  was  for  some  years  in  active  practice.  He 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  M.D.  in  1837  from  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  at  the  head  of 
which  was  his  classmate  McClellan. 

He  was  a  devout  and  active  Christian,  and  in  1843 
entered  the  service  of  the  American  Bible  Society  as  an 
agent  in  the  Southwestern  States. 

His  wife  died  on  January  2,  1846,  in  her  49th  year. 

While  laboring  in  the  service  of  the  Virginia  Bible 
Society,  he  died  at  Point  Pleasant,  (West)  Virginia,  on 
March  4,  1849,  aged  53  years. 

Their  children  were  one  daughter,  who  married  Profes- 
sor John  Brocklesby  (Yale  1835),  and  one  son. 

Joseph  Kerr,  Junior,  son  of  Joseph  Kerr,  was  born  in 
Salisbury,  Rowan  County,  North  Carolina,  on  August  16, 

1797- 

After  graduation  he  attended  the  Litchfield  Law  School, 
and  in  1820  began  practice  in  Augusta,  Georgia. 

Being  ill  with  consumption,  he  started  to  return  to  his 
father's  house ;  but  had  only  accomplished  about  one-third 
of  the  distance  when  death  overtook  him,  at  Newberry, 
South  Carolina,  on  June  25,  1823,  in  his  26th  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1816  7 

James  Kimball  was  born  in  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts, 
on  November  21,  1789,  being  the  ninth  in  a  family  of 
fourteen  children  of  Deacon  Ephraim  and  Betty  (White) 
Kimball. 

He  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  at  gradua- 
tion, but  was  obliged  to  suspend  his  studies  in  the  Senior 
year  (1818-19)  by  the  state  of  his  health. 

He  died  at  his  father's  house  in  Fitchburg,  on  January 
24,  1 82 1,  in  his  32d  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Sheldon  Lemon  entered  College  from  Washington, 
Litchfield  County,  Connecticut. 

After  three  years  of  teaching  in  New  Preston  Society 
in  his  native  town,  he  studied  medicine,  and  settled  for  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  North  Carolina.  About  1836 
he  removed  to  Covington,  in  western  Tennessee. 

On  account  of  consumptive  tendencies  he  retired  early 
from  practice,  and  he  died  on  his  plantation  near  Covington, 
from  congestive  fever,  on  September  21,  1853,  aged  about 
58  years. 

He  married  at  the  South,  and  left  several  children, 
including  one  son,  a  Confederate  soldier,  who  died  in  prison 
in  Chicago. 

George  McClellan,  the  eldest  thild  of  James  and 
Eunice  (Eldridge)  McClellan,  was  born  in  Woodstock, 
Connecticut,  on  February  22,  1797.  He  was  a  nephew  of 
John  McClellan  (Yale  1785),  and  entered  College  at  the 
opening  of  Sophomore  year.  At  graduation  he  was  the 
youngest  of  his  class. 

He  studied  medicine  for  a  year  under  Dr.  Thomas  Hub- 
bard, of  Pomfret,  and  then  entered  the  medical  department 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1819. 

Before  his  graduation  he  had  been  elected  resident  physi- 
cian to  the  hospital  of  the  Philadelphia  alms-house,  and  he 


8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

remained  permanently  in  that  city  in  full  practice  as  a  physi- 
cian and  surg-eon. 

On  September  14.  1820,  he  was  married  to  the  sister  of 
a  classmate,  Elizabeth,  second  daughter  of  John  Hill  Brin- 
ton,  of  Philadelphia. 

He  early  gave  private  courses  of  lectures  on  anatomy  and 
surgery,  and  his  success  was  so  g-reat  as  to  suggest  the  idea 
of  his  founding  a  new  medical  college. 

Accordingly,  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  was  chartered 
in  the  winter  of  1825,  and  he  was  made  Professor  of  Sur- 
gery. The  institution  was  very  prosperous  for  a  dozen 
years,  but  in  1838  a  reorganization  hostile  to  him  was 
effected,  and  he  at  once  procured  the  incorporation  of  a 
medical  department  for  Pennsylvania  College  (at  Gettys- 
burg) to  be  located  in  Philadelphia,  in  which  he  lectured 
on  surgery  from  November,  1839,  ""til  the  spring  of  1843, 
when  the  entire  Faculty  resigned. 

His  private  practice  was  also  very  large,  and  his  success 
as  an  operator  brilliant. 

He  died  suddenly  in  Philadelphia,  from  ulceration  of  the 
bowels,  on  May  9,  1847,  in  his  51st  year. 

Five  children  survived  him.  The  eldest  son  (University 
of  Pa.  1841)  was  eminent  as  a  surgeon,  and  the  second 
son  (U.  S.  Mil.  Acad.  1846)  was  the  celebrated  Major- 
General  of  the  Civil  War. 

James  Van  Cortlandt  Morris,  son  of  James  and  Helen 
(Van  Cortlandt)  Morris,  of  Morrisania,  New  York,  was 
born  on  August  19,  1796.  A  sister  married  her  cousin, 
Richard  R.  Morris  (Yale  1818). 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1820  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  established  himself  in  practice. 

He  died  at  the  house  of  his  brother,  William  H.  Morris, 
in  Morrisania,  on  January  i,  1843,  i"  'lis  47th  year. 

William  Nevins,  the  youngest  of  twelve  children  of 
Captain  David  and  Mary  (Hubbard)   Nevins,  of  Norwich. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1816  9 

Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  13,  1797,  and  entered 
Yale  as  a  Sophomore,  having  previously  been  a  clerk  for 
one  year  in  New  York. 

He  became  a  Christian  in  the  spring  of  181 5,  and  entered 
the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  on  graduation,  com- 
pleting the  course  in  1819. 

He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  London  Associa- 
tion of  Congregational  Ministers,  and  after  some  further 
study  in  Princeton  began  in  August,  1820,  to  preach  as  a 
candidate  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Baltimore. 
He  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  that  church  on 
October  19,  1820,  and  was  married  on  November  13,  1822, 
to  Mary  Lloyd,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Philip  Barton  and 
Anne  Key,  of  Georgetown,  District  of  Columbia. 

He  continued  at  his  post,  performing  his  duties  with 
earnestness  and  great  success,  until  September,  1832,  when 
a  violent  attack  of  bilious  fever  prostrated  him  for  many 
weeks.  An  affection  of  the  throat  and  voice,  from  which 
he  never  recovered,  set  in  in  the  early  spring  of  1834; 
and  shortly  after  his  return  from  a  necessary  vacation,  Mrs. 
Nevins  died  of  cholera,  on  November  8. 

He  left  home  in  January,  1835,  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health,  but  returned  in  August  to  Baltimore,  where  he  died 
on  September  14,  in  his  38th  year. 

Of  his  five  children,  two  died  early;  one  son  and  two 
daughters  survived  him. 

The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  con- 
ferred on  him  by  Princeton  College  in  1834.  He  had  a 
brilliant  and  original  mind,  and  a  character  which  retained 
the  warmest  regard  of  his  friends. 

A  Memoir  was  prefixed  to  a  volume  of  his  Remains, 
published  in  1836. 

Charles  Olcott,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Rev.  Allen 
Olcott  (Yale  1768),  of  that  part  of  East  Hartford,  Con- 


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necticut,  which  is  now  Manchester,  was  born  on  April  3, 
1793,  and  entered  Yale  in  1813.     His  father  died  in  181 1. 

He  studied  law  in  Warren,  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  and 
began  practice  in  Medina,  after  his  admission  to  the  bar. 
He  held  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  for  Medina 
County,  by  appointment  of  the  court  from  1826  to  1830, 
and  by  popular  election  from  1833  to  1837.  His  legal 
knowledge  was  extensive,  minute,  and  accurate ;  but  his 
eccentricities  and  intemperate  habits  grew  upon  him  so  that 
his  practice  w^as  wholly  abandoned  about  1840. 

His  chief  interest  was  in  mechanical  inventions.  While 
in  College  he  had  given  much  time  to  the  invention  of  an 
iron  ship;  and  after  twenty  years  of  labor  he  procured  a 
patent  from  the  United  States  Government  in  1835  for 
his  perfected  invention.  He  always  believed  that  the  first 
British  conception  of  an  iron  ship  was  taken  from  some 
of  his  models. 

He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  newspapers,  chiefly 
on  political  affairs;  and  he  published  one  volume,  on  the 
character  of  Hebrew  servitude. 

For  a  series  of  years  before  he  ceased  to  do  business,  his 
chief  support  came  from  his  fees  as  a  magistrate.  After 
that,  for  a  considerable  time,  he  was  supported  by  the 
charity  of  his  neighbors.  Three  or  four  years  before  his 
death  he  suffered  severely  from  a  paralytic  shock,  and 
became  an  inmate  of  the  County  Infirmary,  in  Medina, 
where  he  died  on  March  4,  1857,  in  his  64th  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Whiting  Sanford,  the  youngest  son  of  Deacon  EHada 
and  Nancy  (Todd)  Sanford,  of  North  Haven,  Connecticut, 
and  grandson  of  John  and  Mehitabel  (Ives)  Sanford,  of 
North  Haven,  was  baptized  on  November  10,  1793. 

In  1817  he  went  to  Laurel,  Delaware,  as  a  teacher. 

He  married  on  August  30,  1821,  Mary,  eldest  daughter 
of  Dr.  Joseph  Foot  (Yale  1787),  of  North  Haven,  who  died 
in  Laurel  on  the  i6th  of  the  following  November. 


YALE  COLLEGE^  CLASS  OF  1816  II 

He  next  married  Mary,  daughter  of  the  late  Nathaniel 
Mitchell,  of  Laurel,  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress, 
soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  Governor  of  Delaware 
(1805-08).  She  died  at  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  who  grew 
to  maturity. 

In  1824  and  1825  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  House 
of  Representatives. 

Soon  after  this  he  embarked  in  the  shipping  business,  and 
took  a  cargo  to  Hayti,  where  he  contracted  the  yellow  fever, 
and  died  at  Port  au  Prince,  and  was  buried  there. 

His  name  was  first  marked  as  deceased  in  the  Triennial 
Catalogue  of  Graduates  issued  in  1829. 

John  Gibbes  Shoolbred  entered  College  from  Charles- 
ton in  1813. 

He  spent  his  life  in  South  Carolina,  carrying  on  a  rice 
plantation  in  St.  James  Parish,  on  the  South  Santee  River, 
about  forty  miles  southeast  of  Charleston.  As  this  was 
not  suitable  for  a  summer  residence,  he  spent  the  summers 
in  Charleston,  or  during  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  in  the 
mountain  region  near  Flat  Rock,  Kershaw  County;  during 
this  period  he  was  the  chairman  of  the  vestry  of  St.  John's 
Episcopal  Church  in  Flat  Rock. 

He  died  suddenly,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Charleston,  at 
a  friend's  house,  from  dropsy,  on  February  14,  1859,  aged 
about  62  years. 

He  married  Emma  Augusta  Gibbes,  who  survived  him,^ 
with  four  sons,  of  a  large  family  of  children. 

Peter  Smith  was  born  in  North  Salem,  Westchester 
County,  New  York,  on  October  24,  1795,  and  entered  Col- 
lege in  1814. 

He  was  noted  for  his  inventive  genius,  and  especially  for 
a  printing  press  which  was  known  by  his  name. 

He  established  himself  in  business  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  died,  after  a  lingering  illness,  on  October  23,  1823, 
at  the  as:e  of  28. 


12  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Phineas  Smith,  the  second  son  of  Phineas  and  Deborah 
Ann  (Judson)  Smith,  of  Roxbury,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  November  19,  1793.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  181 5. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  with 
his  uncle,  the  Hon.  Nathan  Smith,  of  New  Haven,  after- 
wards Senator  of  the  United  States.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  the  spring  of  18 19,  and  after  a  few  months  in 
his  uncle's  office  he  removed  to  Arlington,  in  southwestern 
Vermont,  where  he  established  himself  in  his  profession, 
and  rapidly  acquired  an  extensive  practice. 

He  married,  on  June  30,  1824,  Harriet,  eldest  daughter 
of  Joshua  Judson,  of  Arlington,  who  died,  without  children, 
on  November  3,  1826. 

He  next  married,  on  June  25,  1833,  Jane,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Sylvanus  J.  Penniman,  of  Albany,  who  survived  him. 

About  1835  he  removed  to  Rutland,  where  he  acquired  a 
new  circle  of  clients,  while  retaining  the  old.  But  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1839,  he  was  attacked  with  hemorrhages  of  the 
lungs,  and  his  death  followed,  on  April  19,  in  his  46th 
year. 

A  son  and  a  daughter  survived  him,  another  son  having 
died  in  infancy. 

Charles  Stewart,  son  of  General  John  Stewart,  of 
Brattleboro,  Vermont,  was  probably  born  about  1793,  and 
entered  College  during  Sophomore  year.  He  was  prepared 
by  the  Rev.  Ephraim  T.  Woodruff  (Yale  1797),  of  North 
Coventry,  Connecticut. 

He  taught  in  Georgia  for  two  or  three  years  (about  1817- 
20)  ;  and  after  two  or  three  years  spent  at  home,  he  settled 
in  Haymarket,  Prince  William  County,  Virginia. 

The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known. 

George  Swift,  a  son  of  Judge  Zephaniah  Swift  (Yale 
1778),  was  born  in  Windham,  Connecticut,  about  1796, 
and  entered  Yale  in  1813. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1816  1 3 

He  studied  law,  and  settled  in  practice  in  Warren,  Ohio, 
where  he  died  in  1845. 

In  1829  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives from  Trumbull  County. 

John  Stevenson  Walsh,  son  of  Dudley  Walsh,  a  mer- 
chant of  Albany,  New  York,  of  Irish  birth,  was  born  on 
October  14,  1795,  and  entered  Yale  in  1813.  His  father 
died  in  May,  1816. 

He  returned  to  Albany  and  studied  law,  but  though 
admitted  to  the  bar  never  practiced.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  engaged  in  the  hardware  business. 

He  married,  on  April  27,  1831,  Laura  Spencer  Townsend. 

He  died  in  Albany  on  February  15,  1857,  in  his  62d  year. 
His  widow  died  on  September  15,  1863. 

Of  their  children,  two  died  in  infancy;  two  daughters 
and  a  son  survived  them. 

Russell  Canfield  Wheeler,  elder  son  of  Dr.  Elijah 
Wheeler,  a  practicing  physician  of  Southbury,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  December  i,  1795.  His  mother  was  Mary 
Matilda,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Jehu  Minor  (Yale 
1767),  of  Southbury,  and  of  South  East,  New  York.  Her 
mother  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Canfield  (Yale 
1739),  and  granddaughter  of  Colonel  John  Russell  (Yale 
1704).  In  1806  his  father,  having  studied  theology,  became 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Great  Barrington, 
Massachusetts.  A  brother  was  graduated  at  Williams 
College  in  1825. 

He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  181 5,  but  withdrew 
during  Junior  year,  and  joined  the  next  class  a  year  later. 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  City,  and  after  his  admis- 
sion to  the  bar  in  1820  practiced  his  profession  there  with 
success  until  the  last  year  of  his  life. 

He  married,  on  October  23,  1833,  his  second  cousin, 
Theodosia,  second  daughter  of  John  A.  Davenport  (Yale 


14  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

1802)  and  Eliza  M.  (Wheeler)  Davenport,  of  New  York 
City. 

In  the  spring  of  1847  the  progress  of  consumption  obUged 
him  to  reHnquish  business,  and  on  May  i  he  removed  to 
Brooklyn,  where  he  died  on  August  13,  in  his  52d  year. 

His  widow  removed  in  1852  to  New  Haven,  where  she 
died  on  September  14,  1883,  in  her  73d  year. 

Their  children  were  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  The 
elder  son  was  graduated  here  in  1858  with  the  degree  of 
Ph.B. ;  the  younger  (B.A.  1855)  was  killed  in  the  Civil 
War.  The  daughters  married,  respectively,  Selah  B.  Strong 
(Yale  1864)  and  Franklin  B.  Dexter  (Yale  1861). 

George  Winchester,  fourth  son  of  General  Jacob  Ban- 
croft and  Elizabeth  (Earned)  Winchester,  of  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  on  June  26,  1794,  and  entered  Yale  from 
Dartmouth  College  at  the  opening  of  Senior  year. 

He  studied  law  with  Judge  Joseph  Story  in  Salem,  and 
emigrated  to  Mississippi,  where  he  established  himself  in 
practice  in  Natchez. 

After  having  served  as  Judge  of  the  Criminal  Court  of 
Adams  County,  he  was  nominated  by  the  Whig  party  as 
their  candidate  for  the  judgeship  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  State  in  February,  1827.  He  was  unsuccessful,  but 
when  the  person  elected  declined  to  serve,  he  was  appointed 
to  the  office  by  the  Governor;  the  Legislature,  however,  at 
their  next  session,  gave  the  appointment  to  another. 

In  1829,  being  one  of  the  foremost  Whigs  in  the  State, 
he  was  their  candidate  for  the  governorship.  He  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  in  1836,  but  resigned  in  April, 
1837.  In  1844  he  was  sent  to  the  Legislature  as  a 
Representative. 

He  died  in  Natchez,  on  February  4,  1851,  in  his  57th  year. 

He  was  never  married,  and  for  many  years  made  his 
home  in  the  family  of  William  B.  Howell,  whose  daughter 
married  Jefferson  Davis. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  1 5 

At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  Senior  Warden  of 
Trinity  Church,  Natchez. 

RuFus  Woodward,  fourth  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  and  Polly 
Woodward,  of  Torringford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  July 
16,  1793.  His  mother  was  a  sister  of  Stanley  Griswold 
(Yale  1786). 

After  graduation  he  taught  an  academy  in  Stratford  for 
nine  months,  and  then  taught  in  Wethersfield,  where  his 
brother,  Samuel  B.  Woodward,  M.D.  (honorary  Yale  1822), 
was  then  living,  for  a  year. 

In  October,  1818,  he  undertook  the  office  of  Tutor  in 
Yale,  but  resigned  in  February,  1822,  mainly  on  account  of 
ill-health,  from  an  aggravated  form  of  dyspepsia. 

After  an  interval,  spent  under  the  care  of  his  father  and 
two  brothers,  all  physicians,  he  embarked  in  July,  1823,  for 
Europe,  hoping  to  gain  some  intellectual  advantage,  as  well 
as  improvement  of  health. 

After  visiting  Great  Britain  and  the  south  of  France,  he 
arrived  in  Edinburgh  about  the  loth  of  November,  with  the 
intention  of  attending  lectures  in  the  University;  but  he 
graw  rapidly  worse,  and  died  there  on  November  24,  in  his 
31st  year. 

He  was  buried  in  the  ministers'  burying-ground  in  Edin- 
burgh, and  was  remembered  under  the  title  of  "the  amiable 
American  stranger." 

The  poet  Brainard  (Yale  181 5)  published  a  tribute  to 
his  memory.  Before  his  health  failed,  he  had  expected  to 
study  theology. 

CLASS  OF    1817 

Ebenezer  Bailey,  the  youngest  of  four  children  of  Paul 
and  Emma  (Carr)  Bailey,  of  (West)  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  on  June  25,  1795. 

For  a  few  months  after  graduation  he  remained  in  New 
Haven,  teaching  a  private  school  for  boys  and  beginning 


l6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

legal  studies  with  Seth  P.  Staples;  but  at  the  end  of  the 
year  1817  he  definitely  gave  up  the  law,  and  became  a  tutor 
in  the  family  of  Colonel  Carter,  of  Sabine  Hall,  Richmond 
County,  Virginia. 

After  a  little  more  than  a  year  he  returned  home,  and 
opened  a  school  for  young  ladies  in  Newburj^port.  This 
he  conducted  with  success,  until  in  1823  he  was  appointed 
headmaster  of  the  Franklin  Grammar  School  for  boys  in 
Boston. 

On  March  13,  1825,  he  was  married  in  Newburyport  to 
Adeline,  second  daughter  of  Allen  and  Mary  (Burroughs) 
Dodge,  of  Newburyport  and  Hamilton,  and  a  sister  of  Allen 
W.  Dodge  (Harvard  1826),  who  was  the  father  of  "Gail 
Hamilton." 

In  November,  1825,  he  was  transferred  (largely  at  the 
instance  of  his  friend  and  pastor,  the  Rev.  John  Pierpont, 
who  was  then  on  the  School  Committee)  to  the  principalship 
of  a  High  School  for  Girls,  then  newly  established,  which 
his  unusual  ability  as  a  teacher  soon  made  a  distinguished 
success ;  but  the  expense  was  so  sharply  criticized  that  the 
experiment  came  to  a  sudden  and  mortifying  end  in  June, 
1827. 

He  felt  keenly  the  failure  of  his  best  efforts,  but  in  the 
following  December  he  established  a  Young  Ladies'  High 
School  as  a  private  enterprise,  which  he  conducted  for  about 
ten  years.  Meantime  he  was  in  the  public  service  as  a 
member  of  the  City  Council,  and  was  a  frequent  contributor 
to  the  newspaper  press.  He  also  published  various  school- 
books    which    were    widely    used,    especially    his    Algebra 

(1833). 

The  financial  crisis  of  1837  was  disastrous  to  him,  and 
his  school  was  closed  in  consequence. 

In  the  summer  of  1838  he  opened  a  school  for  boys  in 
Roxbury.  which  he  removed  to  Lynn  in  the  spring  of  1839. 

He  died  in  Lynn,  of  lockjaw,  on  August  4.  1839,  ^"  his 
45th  year.     His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  sons. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  l^ 

John  Phelps  Beers,  the  fourth  son  of  Deacon  Nathan 
and  Mary  (Phelps)  Beers,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on 
July  15,  1796,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior 
year  from  Middlebury  College.  A  brother  was  graduated 
in  1808. 

While  pursuing  graduate  studies,  he  died  in  New  Haven, 
of  typhus  fever,  in  September,  1819,  in  his  24th  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Ebenezer  Blackman,  son  of  Philo  and  Eunice  Black- 
man,  of  Brookfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May  29,  1792. 

He  studied  law,  and  practiced  his  profession  for  a  short 
time  in  Sharon. 

On  April  18,  1822,  he  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Ethan 
and  Abigail  Goodrich,  of  Sharon,  and  soon  after  settled  on 
a  farm  in  Brookfield,  where  the  rest  of  his  life  was  spent. 
He  was  elected  in  1850  as  the  first  Judge  of  the  Probate 
Court  of  the  Brookfield  district,  and  held  office  until  1859. 

He  died  in  Brookfield  on  August  11,  1863,  in  his  72d 
year.  His  widow  died  in  Brookfield  on  February  21,  1874. 
They  had  several  children. 

George  Chase,  the  eldest  child  of  Philander  Chase 
(Dartmouth  Coll.  1796)  and  Mary  (Fay)  Chase,  was  born 
on  December  9,  1797,  in  Albany,  New  York,  where  his 
father  was  a  teacher  in  the  Academy.  In  1798  Mr.  Chase 
was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  for  the  next  few  years  he  was  stationed  at  Pough- 
keepsie.  When  he  removed  to  New  Orleans  in  1805,  his 
son  was  left  under  the  care  of  an  uncle.  Judge  Dudley  Chase 
(Dartmouth  1791),  of  Randolph,  Vermont.  In  181 1  the 
father  returned  to  New  England,  becoming  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Hartford,  and  ultimately  a  Bishop,  and  the  son 
entered  the  Episcopal  academy  in  Cheshire.  He  came  to 
Yale  in  the  last  term  of  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  with  his  uncle  in  Ran- 
dolph, and  in  July,  1821,  married  Eliza  Grover,  of  Bethel, 


1 8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

a  town  about  five  miles  to  the  southward,  where  he  soon 
after  began  practice. 

He  also  became  known  as  a  contributor  to  the  New  York 
Mirror,  and  was  encouraged  by  Major  Noah,  George  P. 
Morris,  and  others  to  think  that  a  future  lay  before  him  in 
that  direction.  Meantime,  however,  he  had  become  a  victim 
of  intemperate  habits. 

In  1828  he  left  his  wife  and  two  young  daughters  to  go 
to  New  York  City,  and  was  never  again  heard  of. 

His  wife  died  at  the  house  of  a  daughter  in  Wisconsin 
in  1862. 

Joseph  William  Edmiston,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane 
(Montgomery)  Edmiston,  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Pennsyl- 
vania, about  1796.  In  his  boyhood  the  family  removed  to 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  whence  he  entered  Yale  in  18 14. 

He  settled  in  the  South,  and  died  in  Alabama,  unmarried. 

His  name  is  first  marked  as  deceased  in  the  Triennial 
Catalogue  of  Graduates  issued  in  1832. 

Joseph  Fowler,  the  eldest  child  of  Joseph  and  Abigail 
(Baldwin)  Fowler,  of  Milford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
October  7,  1798. 

He  died  in  Milford  in  1825. 

He  w^as  never  married. 

William  Gushing  Gay,  the  eldest  child  of  William  Gay 
(Yale  1789),  of  Suffield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  July  12, 
1797. 

He  studied  law  in  Boston,  and  in  1822  began  practice  in 
his  native  town,  where  he  died,  unmarried,  on  December  24, 
1833,  ^"  ^""^s  37th  year. 

Charles  Champion  Gilbert,  the  youngest  of  nine 
children  of  Judge  Samuel  Gilbert  (Yale  1759)  and  Deborah 
(Champion)  Gilbert,  of  Gilead  Society,  in  Hebron,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  April  14,  1797. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  I9 

He  Studied  law  with  his  brother-in-law,  Samuel  Jones 
(Yale  1800),  in  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts,  and  in  1820 
settled  in  practice  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  where  he  married, 
on  July  26,  1 82 1,  Deborah  Cass,  daughter  of  Wyllys  Silli- 
man,  a  prominent  lawyer,  and  Deborah  Webster  (Cass) 
Silliman. 

He  was  soon  diverted  from  his  profession  by  an  appoint- 
ment as  Register  of  the  United  States  Bank,  which  he  held 
from  1825  to  1828;  and  from  this  office  he  passed  to  a 
position  in  the  Zanesville  Bank,  with  the  result  that  the  rest 
of  his  life  was  given  to  banking.  He  was  also  mayor  of 
the  city,  and  prominent  in  other  public  positions. 

His  wife  died  on  November  i,  1839,  in  her  34th  year; 
and  his  own  death  followed,  on  November  18,  1844,  in  his 
54th  year. 

Their  children  were  four  sons  and  six  daughters.  The 
eldest  son  was  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1846. 

Jared  Griswold,  the  youngest  son  of  Captain  Andrew 
and  Eunice  (Prince)  Griswold,  of  East  Lyme,  Connecti- 
cut, was  born  on  February  25,  1794. 

He  studied  law  while  teaching  school  in  Farmington,  and 
practiced  his  profession  successively  in  Simsbury  and  Farm- 
ington. He  represented  Farmington  in  the  Legislature  for 
four  years,  1826-29,  and  in  the  latter  year  removed  to 
Hartford. 

He  was  elected  Mayor  of  Hartford,  and  took  office  in 
June,  1835  ;  but  died  there  after  a  brief  illness  on  November 
20,  1835,  in  his  42d  year. 

He  married,  on  January  i,  1830,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Appleton  Robbins,  of  Granby,  by  whom  he  had  one  son 
and  one  daughter. 

RuFus  Huntington,  the  third  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Gray)  Huntington,  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  a  nephew 
of  the  Rev.  Dan  Huntington  (Yale  1794),  was  born  on 
April  5,  1798. 


20  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

He  died,  unmarried,  in  Clinton,  Jones  County,  Georgia,  on 
December  lo,  1825,  in  his  28th  year. 

Samuel  Bridge  Ingersoll,  only  son  of  Samuel  and 
Eleanor  Ingersoll,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  grandson 
of  the  Rev.  Matthew  Bridge  (Harvard  1741),  was  born 
on  October  13,  1785.  At  the  age  of  17,  he  entered  on  a 
seafaring  life,  in  which  he  continued  for  about  nine  years, 
reaching  the  post  of  Commander.  Having  then  become  a 
Christian,  and  having  resolved  to  prepare  for  the  ministry, 
he  began  to  study,  and  joined  the  Sophomore  Class  at  Yale 
at  the  age  of  29. 

On  graduation  he  put  himself  under  the  instruction  of 
Professor  Fitch,  and  on  May  25,  1819,  he  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Association. 

In  September  he  began  to  preach  in  Shrewsbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Sumner  (Yale  1759) 
was  in  need  of  a  colleague,  and  on  December  2  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Susan,  second  daughter  of  Charles  and  Anna  (Cut- 
ler) Whittelsey,  of  New  Haven,  and  sister  of  Chauncey 
Whittelsey  (Yale  1820). 

In  January,  1820,  he  was  called  to  Shrewsbury  by  the 
unanimous  vote  of  the  church,  which  was  confirmed  by  a 
vote  of  the  town  in  May ;  and  his  ordination  and  installation 
followed  on  June  14. 

He  preached  on  the  following  Sunday,  June  18,  but  was 
then  taken  severely  ill.  In  July  he  was  removed  to  Beverly, 
where  his  family  then  resided,  and  after  languishing  in 
extreme  pain  for  four  months  he  died  on  November  14,  in 
his  36th  year. 

The  unvarying  testimony  of  his  contemporaries  is  that  he 
was  a  man  of  remarkably  beautiful  and  elevated  Christian 
character,  and  that  his  influence  for  good  while  in  College 
was  rarely  equaled. 

His  widow  married  on  June  7,  1824,  the  Hon.  William 
Tappan  Eustis,  of  Boston,  who  died  in  May,   1874.     She 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  21 

returned  later  to  New  Haven,  where  she  died  on  December 
6,  1877,  aged  8i  years. 

James  Harvey  Linsley,  the  eldest  of  ten  children  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Maltby)  Linsley,  of  Northford,  in 
(North)  Branford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May  5,  1787. 
His  parents  were  Baptists,  and  after  he  had  taught  for 
several  years  he  became  a  member  of  the  church  and 
decided  to  study  for  the  ministry.  He  was  obliged  to 
teach  during  much  of  his  College  course,  to  obtain  money, 
and  this  excessive  labor  injured  permanently  his  constitution. 

After  graduation  he  continued  to  teach  in  New  Haven, 
where  he  was  married,  on  February  i,  1818,  to  Sophia 
Brainard,  daughter  of  Colonel  William  and  Lois  (Mans- 
held)  Lyon. 

In  May,  1818,  he  took  charge  of  the  New  Canaan  Acad- 
emy, which  he  left  in  April,  1821,  to  establish  a  boarding 
school  for  boys  in  Stratford,  which  was  thenceforth  his 
home. 

In  addition  to  his  teaching,  he  began  in  1828  to  preach 
as  he  had  opportunity,  though  not  regularly  licensed  until 
January,  1831 ;  and  on  desiring  to  undertake  stated  minis- 
terial work,  he  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  on  June  9, 
in  Meriden,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Baptist  State  Convention. 

At  the  same  time  he  gave  up  his  school  to  devote  himself 
wholly  to  his  new  duties. 

For  nearly  five  years  he  was  exclusively  occupied  with 
preaching,  having  also  the  pastoral  care  of  two  Baptist 
societies  which  he  had  gathered,  in  Milford  (1832)  and 
Bridgeport  (1835). 

Early  in  1836  the  constant  exertion  of  his  voice  brought 
on  an  alarming  attack  of  bronchitis,  which  forbade  further 
public  speaking. 

He  then  had  leisure  to  indulge  his  enthusiasm  for  natural 
history,  and  in  his  remaining  years  he  gave  himself  with  all 
his  wonted  energy  and  perseverance  to  the  preparation  of 


2  2  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

exhaustive  catalogues  of  the  birds,  mammals,  reptiles, 
fishes,  and  shells  collected  by  himself  in  Connecticut. 

Meantime  his  health  was  precarious,  and  after  a  brief 
final  illness  he  died  at  his  home  in  Stratford,  on  December 
26,  1843,  Jn  his  57th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Stratford  on  January  31,  1866,  in  her 
84th  year.  Their  children  were  two  daughters,  the  younger 
of  whom  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sylvanus  Dryden  Phelps 
(Brown  Univ.  1844). 

James  Fitch  Mason,  son  of  James  Fitch  Mason,  of 
Goshen  Society,  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  nephew  of  the 
Hon.  Jeremiah  Mason  (Yale  1788),  was  born  in  1796.  His 
mother  was  Nancy,  daughter  of  Joseph  Fitch,  of  Montville. 

He  studied  law  in  Troy,  New  York,  and  in  1822  settled  in 
practice  in  Lockport,  where  he  early  took  a  prominent  posi- 
tion. He  was  clerk  of  Niagara  County  from  November, 
1825,  to  November,  1828. 

He  died  in  Lockport,  on  May  25,  1836,  in  his  40th  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

Samuel  Hanford  Mead,  the  eldest  child  of  Nehemiah 
and  Ruth  (Richards)  Mead,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was 
bom  on  December  2,  1796. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  practiced  in  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  and  afterwards  in  his  native  town. 

In  consequence  of  ill  health  he  finally  gave  up  his  pro- 
fession, and  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  teaching.  His 
residence  remained  in  Greenwich. 

He  married  on  March  14,  1822,  Malvina  Valentine,  who 
died  on  October  10,  185 1,  in  her  56th  year. 

He  was  struck  by  a  passing  train,  while  walking  on  the 
railroad  track  in  the  upper  part  of  New  York  (near  Mel- 
rose), on  October  10,  1854,  and  died  in  the  New  York  Hos- 
pital, one  week  later,  on  October  17,  in  his  58th  year. 

His  children  were  two  daughters,  who  survived  him. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  23 

Abraham  Ogden,  the  second  son  of  Thomas  Ludlow 
Ogden  (Columbia  Coll.  1791),  a  distinguished  lawyer  of 
New  York  City,  and  of  Martha  (Hammond,  Rosseau) 
Ogden,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  on  September  22, 
1798.  He  spent  two  years  in  Columbia  College,  and  then 
migrated  to  Yale,  on  account  of  dissatisfaction  with  the 
Faculty. 

He  studied  law,  but  soon  abandoned  the  profession  as 
uncongenial  to  his  tastes,  which  were  mainly  literary. 

He  then  pursued  a  mercantile  career,  and  died  in  New 
York,  unmarried,  on  July  29,  1849,  '^^  his  51st  year. 

Robert  Bridges  Patton,  the  second  son  of  Colonel  Rob- 
ert and  Cornelia  (Bridges)  Patton,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia on  September  25,  1794.  His  father,  a  native  of  Ire- 
land, a  Revolutionary  officer,  and  for  nearly  twenty  years 
Postmaster  of  Philadelphia,  died  in  January,  1814.  At  that 
time  this  son  had  begun  the  study  of  law;  but  he  now 
entered  Middlebury  College,  Vermont,  with  the  design  of 
becoming  a  minister.  At  the  beginning  of  Junior  year,  he 
came  to  Yale. 

On  graduation  he  was  elected  to  a  tutorship  in  Middle- 
bury  College,  and  after  one  year's  service  in  that  capacity, 
his  promise  was  so  striking  that  he  was  elected  Professor 
of  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages.  He  then  spent  three 
years  in  study  in  Europe,  mostly  in  Gottingen,  where  he 
took  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1821 ;  during  this  period  he 
studied  also  Hebrew,  Arabic,  and  the  modern  languages. 

On  his  return  he  devoted  himself  to  his  vocation  with 
eminent  success,  and  in  1825  accepted  a  call  to  a  correspond- 
ing chair  in  Princeton  College.  This  he  resigned  in  1829, 
to  become  the  principal  of  the  Edgehill  School  for  boys, 
which  he  established  at  Princeton,  and  which  he  maintained 
for  four  years  with  highly  satisfactory  results. 

In  1833  he  transferred  this  to  other  hands,  and  after  a 
year  in  Europe,  became  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  New 


24  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

York  University.  Here  also  success  attended  his  teaching; 
but  owing  to  serious  difficulties  with  the  chancellor,  in  1838 
his  chair  and  three  others  were  declared  vacant  by  the 
Council,  who  refused  a  hearing  to  the  dismissed  Professors. 

The  circumstances  of  this  action  so  wore  on  his  sensi- 
tive nature  that  he  sank  into  a  decline,  and  died  in  New 
York  on  May  6,  1839,  i^  his  45th  year. 

He  married  Eliza  S.  Latimer,  of  Middlebury,  who  sur- 
vived him  with  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Benjamin  Edmond  Payne  entered  Yale  from  Norfolk, 
Virginia,  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year.  He  was  born 
about  1796. 

He  returned  to  Norfolk,  and  engaged  in  teaching  for  a 
time.  He  then  studied  law,  but  became  the  victim  of  intem- 
perate habits,  and  died  early. 

Horace  Southworth  Pratt,  the  fifth  of  eight  sons  of 
Ezra  and  Temperance  (Southworth)  Pratt,  of  that  part  of 
Saybrook  which  is  now  Essex,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
February  7,  1794. 

In  1818  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1821,  when  he 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  then  supplied  for  about  a  year  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  wdience  he  removed  to 
Georgia,  where  he  was  ordained  and  installed  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Georgia,  on  June  10,  1822,  as  pastor  of  the  church 
in  St.  Mary's,  at  the  southeastern  corner  of  the  State. 

His  pastorate  was  terminated  in  183 1,  but  his  residence 
continued  in  St.  Mary's,  and  he  was  employed  for  most  of 
the  time  in  the  supply  of  his  old  church,  until  late  in  1838, 
when  he  removed  to  Tuscaloosa  to  accept  the  appointment 
of  Professor  of  English  Literature  in  the  University  of 
Alabama,  which  had  been  offered  him  in  1837. 

In  the  latter  part  of  July,  1840,  he  made  a  journey  into 
Georgia,  and  while  on  the  way  died,  on  August  3,  in  his 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  25 

46th  year,  at  the  house  of  his  next  younger  brother,  the  Rev. 
Nathaniel  A.  Pratt  (Yale  1820),  in  Roswell,  Cobb  County. 

He  married,  at  St.  Mary's,  on  February  28,  1823,  Jane, 
only  daughter  of  John  Wood,  of  Columbia  County,  who 
died  in  1829.  In  January,  1832,  he  married  Isabel  Drysdale, 
a  special  friend  of  his  first  wife. 

By  his  first  marriage  he  had  two  daughters  and  two  sons ; 
and  by  his  second  marriage  a  son  and  two  daughters. 

Jared  Reid,  son  of  Samuel  Reid,  of  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Preston,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Preston  in 
February,  1788.  He  subsequently  resided  in  Colchester, 
and  spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  college  course  in  Middle- 
bury  College. 

In  1819  he  entered  the  iVndover  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  spent  three  years.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  in 
April,  1822;  and  on  October  8,  1823,  was  ordained  and 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Old  South  Congregational  Church 
in  Reading,  Massachusetts,  where  he  remained  until  June 
12,  1833. 

He  was  married  on  November  27,  1823,  to  Sarah  (or 
Sally),  second  daughter  of  Asa  and  Lydia  (Newton)  Bige- 
low,  of  Colchester,  and  sister  of  George  N.  Bigelow  (Yale 
1820). 

Immediately  on  leaving  Reading  he  began  to  supply  the 
pulpit  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Belchertown,  and  in 
the  next  month  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate.  He  was 
installed  there  on  September  4,  1833,  and  was  dismissed  on 
January  6,  1841,  at  his  own  request. 

Later  in  1841  he  was  installed  in  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island, 
where  his  ministry  terminated,  on  account  of  ill  health,  in 
1850. 

His  wife  died  in  Tiverton  on  February  11,  1845,  i'^  h^^ 
58th  year. 

He  died  in  Tiverton  on  June  17,  1854,  in  his  67th  year. 

His  only  child  was  graduated  here  in  1846. 


20  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Edward  Rutledge^  son  of  Edward  and  Jane  (Harleston) 
Rutledge,  was  born  near  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  on 
November  i6,  1798.  Two  brothers  were  graduated  here,  in 
1819  and  1829,  respectively. 

He  studied  theology,  and  was  the  first  person  admitted  to 
(Deacon's)  orders  by  Bishop  Brownell,  of  Connecticut, — at 
Middletown,  on  November  17,  1819. 

He  was  soon  after  married  to  Augusta,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Shaler,  of  Middletown,  and  then  returned  to 
South  Carolina,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Thomas  and  St.  Denis,  north  of  Charleston,  in  Berkeley 
County. 

In  1 82 1  he  came  North,  and  organized  the  church  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 

In  November,  1822,  he  went  back  to  his  former  location 
in  South  Carolina,  and  was  ordained  Priest  by  Bishop 
Bowen  in  December  at  Berkeley. 

In  1824  he  became  Rector  of  Christ  Church  in  Stratford, 
Connecticut,  where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1829, 
when  he  accepted  the  position  of  Assistant  Professor  of 
Moral  Philosophy  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  at 
Philadelphia. 

A  serious  bronchial  affection  obliged  him  to  resign  his 
position  late  in  1831,  and  to  return  to  Charleston,  where  he 
died  on  March  13,  1832,  in  his  34th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  six  children. 

Lewis  Rogers  Starr,  son  of  Benajah  Starr,  of  Danbury, 
Connecticut,  was  born  in  1793. 

He  became  a  country  store  keeper  in  his  native  town,  but 
suffered  from  ill  health  and  intemperate  habits,  and  died  in 
Danbury,  unmarried,  on  March  8,  1852,  at  the  age  of  59 
years. 

William  Bostwick  Stillson,  the  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Rachel  (Bostwick)  Stillson,  of  New  Milford,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  May  24,  1795,  and  entered  Yale  in  1815.     He 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1817  27 

was  regarded  by  his  classmates  as  a  man  of  genius,  and  of 
singularly  attractive  character.  His  attainments  were  such 
that  he  delivered  the  Valedictory  Oration  at  graduation. 

He  died  while  teaching  school,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
on  May  30,  1819,  at  the  age  of  24. 

RoswELL  Stone,  a  brother  of  Randolph  Stone,  Yale 
1 81 5,  was  born  in  Bristol,  Connecticut,  about  1793. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Warren,  Ohio,  and  died  in  Decem- 
ber, 1833,  leaving  a  widow  and  three  children. 

Edward  Taylor,  son  of  Phineas  and  Molly  (Sherwood) 
Taylor,  of  Bethel,  then  a  district  of  Danbury,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  December  5,  1794.  Phineas  Taylor  Barnum, 
the  noted  showman,  was  his  nephew. 

He  studied  law,  and  practiced  his  profession,  residing 
at  first  in  Bethel,  then  in  Danbury,  and  finally  again,  after 
the  failure  of  his  health,  in  Bethel.  For  two  years  (1852- 
54)  he  was  a  Judge  of  the  Fairfield  County  Court.  He  was 
a  Whig  in  politics,  and  a  leader  in  his  party.  His  character 
as  a  professional  man  may  be  judged  by  the  fact  that  he 
was  known  among  his  contemporaries  as  "an  honest  lawyer." 

He  married  on  September  17,  1820,  Salome,  daughter  of 
Captain  Joseph  and  Salome  Barnum,  of  Bethel. 

He  died  in  Bethel  on  May  24,  1857,  in  his  63d  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

William  Ustick  Titus  entered  College  from  Flushing, 
Long  Island.     He  was  probably  born  in  1797. 

He  became  a  wholesale  merchant  in  Pearl  Street,  New 
York  City,  but  retired  about  1831  or  2  to  a  farm  on  Long 
Island. 

He  died  in  Malone,  Franklin  County,  New  York,  on  Jan- 
uary 19,  1845,  in  his  48th  year. 

Richard  Warner,  son  of  Selden  and  Dorothy  (Selden) 
Warner,  of  Hadlyme  Society,  in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  October  19,  1794,  and  entered  College  in  1814. 


2  8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

While  teaching-  school  in  a  neighboring  parish,  he  began 
the  study  of  medicine  with  his  brother  (Yale  1812),  and  in 
1820  he  joined  the  Yale  Medical  Department,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  182 1. 

He  began  practice  in  his  native  parish,  removing  in  May, 
1823,  to  the  adjoining  town  of  East  Haddam. 

On  November  11,  1826,  he  married  Mary  Melicent,  sec- 
ond daughter  of  John  and  Cynthia  (Hyde)  Gilbert,  of 
Mansfield,  and  sister  of  Dr.  Gershom  C.  H.  Gilbert  (Yale 
1841). 

Early  in  1831  he  again  removed,  to  Middletown  Upper 
Houses,  now  Cromwell,  where  his  wife  died  on  December 
13,  1836,  in  her  34th  year. 

He  continued  in  Cromwell  until  his  very  sudden  death 
there,  on  September  29,  1853,  in  his  59th  year. 

His  career  had  been  in  the  highest  degree  creditable  to 
him,  as  a  physician,  as  a  religious  man,  and  as  a  citizen. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  President  of  the  State 
Medical  Society. 

He  married  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel 
Gaylord,  of  Cromwell,  and  sister  of  Samuel  Gay  lord  (Yale 
1826),  on  July  17,  1844,  who  survived  him,  with  two  sons; 
besides  a  son  by  his  former  marriage. 

Edmund  Wilkins,  the  eldest  son  of  William  Wyche  and 
Elizabeth  Judkins  (Rains)  Wilkins,  of  Hicksford,  now 
Emporia,  Greenesville  County,  Virginia,  near  the  southern 
border,  and  grandson  of  Edmund  and  Rebecca  Wilkins,  was 
born  on  October  2,  1796,  and  entered  Yale  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 
Two  brothers  were  graduated  here,  in  1820  and  1822, 
respectively. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Litchfield  Law  School  (where  his 
father  had  also  been  trained),  and  settled  for  a  few  years 
in  Scotland  Neck,  Halifax  County,  North  Carolina,  remov- 
ing thence  to  a  large  and  valuable  estate  called  Belmont. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  29 

which  his  father  had  purchased  in  1815,  in  Thelma,  in  the 
adjoining  county  of  Northampton.  His  law  practice  ex- 
tended over  both  counties. 

He  died  at  Belmont  on  January  28,  1867,  in  his  71st  year. 
He  was  never  married. 

Robert  Walker  Withers,  son  of  Thomas  and  Louisa 
(Walker)  Withers,  of  Petersburg,  Dinwiddie  County,  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  on  November  9,  1798,  and  entered  Yale  in 

1815. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1820,  and  settling  in  prac- 
tice in  his  native  State. 

He  married,  in  1822,  Martha  Williams,  who  died  six 
weeks  later. 

In  1823  he  removed  to  Greensboro,  Alabama,  where  he 
abandoned  his  profession  and  devoted  himself  with  energy 
and  enterprise  to  business  as  a  planter.  Some  years  later 
he  married  his  first  cousin,  Mary  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  Herbert  (Jones)  W^ithers,  of  Huntsville;  and  his 
home  at  Milwood,  ten  miles  from  Greensboro,  was  a  famous 
center  of  hospitality.  Here  he  made  the  first  application  of 
artesian  wells  as  a  water-power  in  America.  He  was  the 
first  president  of  the  State  Agricultural  Society,  and  a  fre- 
quent contributor  to  the  agricultural  press. 

He  was  an  earnest  Churchman,  and  a  member  of  the 
vestry  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Greensboro. 

He  died  in  1854,  in  his  56th  year,  leaving  a  large  family 
of  sons  and  dausfhters. 


CLASS    OF    1818 

Cyrus  Hall  Beardsley,  son  of  Hall  and  Rachel  Ann 
(Wheeler)  Beardsley,  was  born  in  that  part  of  Huntington, 
Connecticut,  which  is  now  Monroe,  on  February  4,  1799. 


30  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

He  Studied  law  for  about  a  year  in  the  office  of  Chief- 
Justice  Zephaniah  Swift  (Yale  1778),  of  Windham,  and 
completed  his  studies  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Asa 
Chapman  (Yale  1792),  of  Newtown. 

In  March,  1820,  he  married,  in  Windham,  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Timothy  Burr,  a  Hartford  merchant,  and 
Susan  (Horton)  Burr,  and  settled  in  his  native  parish. 

Being  in  easy  circumstances,  he  did  not  devote  himself 
largely  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  though  he  main- 
tained a  good  reputation  as  a  lawyer,  and  had  abundant 
business  when  he  attended  the  courts. 

After  the  town  of  Monroe  was  incorporated  (in  1823), 
he  was  its  representative  seven  times  in  the  Legislature, 
serving  as  Clerk  of  the  House  in  1825,  1826,  and  183 1,  and 
as  Speaker  in  1846.  He  was  also  elected  to  the  State  Sen- 
ate in  1832,  and  was  at  different  times  for  a  number  of 
years  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Fairfield  County  Court. 

In  1850  he  removed  to  Bridgeport,  and  there  did  some 
business  as  an  office  lawyer,  in  connection  with  his  son. 

He  died  at  his  daughter's  house  in  Fairfield  on  August 
13,  1852,  in  his  54th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Monroe. 

Two  children  survived  him, — a  son  and  a  daughter. 
The  son  was  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1842,  and 
in  1886  received  an  honorary  M.A.  degree. 

Samuel  Borrowe,  Junior,  a  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  Borrowe, 
of  New  York  City,  was  born  in  1798,  and  had  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Columbia  College  before  entering  Yale  during  Fresh- 
man year. 

He  studied  medicine  in  New  York,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  the  spring  of  1822. 

In  the  spring  of  1824  he  established  himself  in  practice 
in  Geneva,  New  York,  and  had  attained  a  good  degree  of 
success,  when  he  died  there  from  typhus  fever,  on  March  5, 
1827,  at  the  age  of  29. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  3 1 

David  Botsford  was  born  in  Newtown,  Connecticut,  on 
March  5,  1797. 

In  the  fall  of  1820  he  became  a  student  in  the  Episcopal 
Theological  Seminary  then  established  in  New  Haven,  and 
on  September  26,  1821,  he  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders 
by  Bishop  Brownell. 

The  following  winter  he  had  charge  of  the  parish  in 
Wallingford ;  but  in  March,  1822,  he  was  obliged  by  the 
progress  of  pulmonary  disease  to  retire  to  his  father's  house, 
where  he  died  on  June  17,  in  his  26th  year. 

He  was  of  a  very  amiable  and  gentle  disposition,  and  died 
with  entire  resignation. 

Eleazer  Brainard,  the  eldest  son  of  Gideon  and  Heph- 
zibah  (Hubbard)  Brainard,  of  Haddam,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Haddam  on  July  7,  1793. 

From  1 8 19  to  1822  he  was  a  student  in  the  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  then  spent  some  time  in  city  mission- 
ary work  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina. 

On  October  26,  1825,  he  was  ordained  in  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, for  home  missionary  service  in  Ohio  in  connection 
with  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

In  August,  1827,  he  married  Lucinda,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  and  Lucinda  (Wheeler)  Reed,  of  Boston. 

He  labored  with  various  churches  in  Southern  Ohio,  as 
from  1828  to  1836  in  Portsmouth,  in  1839-40  in  Lewis,  in 
1843-46  in  Mason,  in  1847-50  in  Oxford,  and  in  1850-53 
in  Manchester.     He  died  on  July  24,  1854,  at  the  age  of  61. 

His  children  were  two  sons  and  three  daughters. 

Anson  Burgess,  the  youngest  son  of  Asa  and  Sarah 
(Miles)  Burgess,  was  born  in  Westminster  Society,  in 
Canterbury,  Connecticut,  on  April  6,  1796.  A  brother  was 
graduated  in  1814. 

He  died  in  Canterbury  on  November  3,  or  26,  1838,  in 
his  43d  year. 


32  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Henry  Clary  was  born  in  Conway,  Massachusetts,  in 
1796. 

He  remained  at  the  College  as  a  resident  graduate  for 
the  year  1818-19.  Later,  he  was  engaged  in  teaching,  and 
married  on  August  31,  1826,  Hephzibah,  daughter  of  John 
Eastman,  of  Amherst,  and  sister  of  Jonathan  Eastman 
(Yale  181 1 )  and  Oman  Eastman  (Yale  1821). 

While  principal  of  a  seminary  for  young  ladies,  called 
Ebenezer  Academy,  at  Sturgeonville,  in  Brunswick  County, 
Virginia,  he  died  there  on  March  12,  1829,  aged  33  years. 
Before  his  last  illness  he  had  resolved  to  study  for  the  min- 
istry, and  had  subscribed  $1,000  to  the  funds  of  the  new- 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York. 

His  widow  married,  in  November,  1835,  Matthew  O. 
Halsted,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey. 

Francis  Hiram  Cone,  the  elder  son  of  Joshua  and  Chloe 
(Chapman)  Cone,  of  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  was  born 
in  East  Haddam  on  September  5,  1797.  A  brother  was 
graduated  here  in  1820,  and  a  half-brother  in  1826.  He 
entered  College  at  the  opening  of  the  Sophomore  year. 
After  graduation  he  resided  here  for  a  year  on  a  Berkeley 
Scholarship. 

In  1819  he  settled  in  Georgia,  and  on  his  admission  to 
the  bar  began  practice  in  Greene  County,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  his  death. 

He  married  on  January  8,  1829,  Jane  Williams  Cooke. 

In  1841  he  was  elected  an  associate  justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Georgia.  He  resigned  his  post  shortly  before  the 
expiration  of  his  term  (of  four  years)  ;  but  consented  to 
stand  again,  and  served  for  another  term. 

In  1856  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate. 

He  died  at  his  residence  in  Greensboro  on  May  18,  1859, 
in  his  62d  year. 

His  children  were  two  daughters  and  two  sons. 

Judge  Cone  had  a  wide  reputation  for  brilliancy  and  wit. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  33 

James  Jamieson  Cordes,  son  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca 
(Jamieson)  Cordes,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina  (who 
were  married  in  May,  1797),  was  born  in  1798.  He  was 
prepared  for  College  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  D.  Frost  (Yale 

1813). 

He  was  married,  on  March  20,  1820,  to  his  second  cousin, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah  Lydia  (Simons) 
Lucas. 

In  1823  his  father-in-law,  a  very  wealthy  rice-mill  owner, 
enjoying  a  monopoly  of  the  rice-milling  business,  since  his 
father  had  invented  the  mill,  was  induced  by  the  English 
government  to  go  to  London  to  establish  rice-mills.  Mr. 
Cordes  and  his  family  went  with  the  Lucas  family,  and  he 
soon  after  joined  with  a  brother-in-law  in  an  iron  mill  near 
London. 

Mr.  Lucas  also  transferred  to  Mr.  Cordes  a  patent  for 
making  wrought  nails  which  he  had  acquired,  and  Mr. 
Cordes  established  a  very  successful  nail-factory  near  New- 
port, in  Monmouthshire. 

He  died  at  his  place  in  Newport,  on  January  12,  1867,  in 
his  69th  year. 

One  of  his  sons  became  the  Conservative  Member  of  Par- 
liament for  Monmouth  from  1874  to  1880. 

Edward  Gere  was  the  eldest  son  of  Isaac  Gere,  who  came 
from  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  and  settled  in  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  as  a  goldsmith  in  1794.  Here  he  married 
Jemima  Kingsley,  and  his  son  Edward  was  born  on  Decem- 
ber 19,  1798.     Another  son  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1827. 

About  the  year  1820  Edward  Gere  and  his  brother  Isaac 
in  a  spirit  of  enterprise  removed  to  Williamsburg,  eight 
miles  westward,  and  began  life  as  merchants. 

The  elder  brother  married  on  October  14,  1824,  Arabella, 
daughter  of  Gross  and  Mary  (Washburn)  Williams,  of 
Williamsburg.  He  soon  after  bought  a  farm  and  removed 
to  it  in  1825;   but  died  there  on  September  24,  1832,  in  his 


34  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

34tli  year.  He  had  been  twice  elected  to  the  board  of 
selectmen  of  the  town,  and  died  while  holding  that  office. 
He  left  three  sons. 

His  widow  died  in  Williamsburg  on  March  5,  1893,  in 
her  89th  year. 

Joseph  Morgan  Gilbert,  son  of  Joseph  Gilbert,  was  born 
in  Hamden,  a  suburb  of  New  Haven,  on  May  16,  1795. 

His  early  training  was  mainly  given  by  the  Rev.  Elijah 
G.  Plumb,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  East  Haven. 
As  an  undergraduate  he  was  distinguished  in  mathematics. 

After  a  year  of  study  in  New  Haven,  and  of  preparation 
for  the  ministry,  he  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by 
Bishop  Hobart,  in  New  Haven,  on  June  3,  18 19. 

In  the  following  summer  he  declined  a  call  to  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  and  toward  the  close  of  the  year  accepted  the 
rectorship  of  the  church  on  Edisto  Island,  South  Carolina, 
twenty  miles  southwest  of  Charleston.  He  was  there 
ordained  Priest  by  Bishop  Bowen  on  April  19,  1820. 

In  the  summer  of  1822  he  removed  to  Grace  Church,  on 
Sullivan's  Island,  a  summer  parish,  in  Charleston  Harbor,  to 
which  charge  was  added  in  the  following  winter  the  rector- 
ship of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Charleston. 

These  duties  not  occupying  fully  his  time,  he  was  en- 
couraged to  conduct  also  a  select  classical  school,  and  a  little 
later  (December,  1822)  became  a  teacher  in  a  grammar 
school  established  by  the  trustees  of  Charleston  College,  and 
subsequently  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  that  college. 

He  was  highly  successful  in  this  office,  but  in  August, 
1824,  removed  with  some  of  his  pupils  to  Sullivan's  Island, 
to  escape  the  ravages  of  yellow  fever,  to  which,  however, 
he  fell  a  victim,  on  October  27,  in  his  30th  year. 

A  son  survived  him,  and  left  descendants. 

Richard  Haughton,  the  second  son  of  William  Whiting 
and  Olive  (Chester)  Haughton,  of  Montville,  Connecticut, 
was  born  in  Montville  on  October  13,  1799. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  35 

He  was  a  resident  graduate  at  the  College  for  two  or 
three  years. 

While  proprietor  and  senior  editor  of  the  Boston  Atlas,  he 
died  in  Boston  on  April  17,  1841,  in  his  42d  year,  after  a 
final  illness  of  less  than  two  hours.  He  had  just  been 
entrusted  by  the  United  States  Government  with  the  task  of 
conveying  to  Europe  certain  public  dispatches,  and  was 
shortly  to  sail  on  that  errand. 

He  was  unmarried,  and  a  brother  was  the  sole  heir  of 
his  estate. 

Hector  Humphreys,  the  youngest  of  ten  children  of  Col- 
onel George  and  Rachel  (Humphrey)  Humphreys,  of  Can- 
ton, Connecticut,  was  born  in  Canton  on  June  8,  1797.  He 
delivered  the  Valedictory  Oration  at  graduation. 

He  united  with  the  College  Church  in  his  Freshman  year, 
and  remained  in  New  Haven  after  taking  his  degree,  as 
Rector  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  a  student  of 
law  with  Seth  P.  Staples. 

On  March  15,  1820,  he  married  Mariette,  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Clarissa  (Quintard)  Mott,  of  Norwalk,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church ;  and  after  he  had 
begun  the  practice  of  law  in  New  Haven,  he  decided  (late 
in  1822)  to  abandon  his  profession  for  the  Episcopal 
ministry. 

He  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  in  New  Haven  by 
Bishop  Brownell  on  March  14,  1824,  and  soon  became  Tutor 
in  the  new  Washington  (now  Trinity)  College  in  Hartford. 
He  also  had  the  charge  of  a  church  in  South  Glastonbury, 
where  he  was  advanced  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop 
Brownell  on  March  6,  1825. 

In  1826  he  was  made  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages 
in  Washington  College,  and  held  that  post  until  1831.  In 
November,  1830,  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  St. 
John's  College,  in  Annapolis,  Maryland,  where  he  took 
office  in  the   ensuing  summer,   was   inaugurated  on   Feb- 


36  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

ruary  25,  1832.  and  remained  until  his  death.  The  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  given  him  by  Trinity  College 
in  1833.  Besides  his  presidency  he  filled  the  professorship 
of  Aloral  Science. 

He  died  in  Annapolis  on  January  25,  1857,  in  his  60th 
year.  His  widow  died  in  Annapolis  on  February  19,  1874, 
in  her  71st  year.     They  had  three  daughters  and  three  sons. 

Thomas  Harmer  Johns,  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Evan  Johns 
(hon.  M.A.  Yale  1809),  a  Welshman  who  came  to  America 
in  1801,  was  born  about  1797.  His  mother  was  a  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Harmer,  a  dissenting  minister  of  Suf- 
folk, well  known  as  a  writer  and  antiquary.  Mr.  Johns  was 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Worthington  Society 
in  Berlin,  Connecticut,  from  June,  1802,  to  February,  1811 ; 
and  after  an  interval  of  residence  in  South  Hadley,  Massa- 
chusetts, settled  again  in  the  ministry  in  Canandaigua,  New 
York,  in  October,  181 7. 

The  son  spent  an  uneventful  life  on  a  farm  in  Canan- 
daigua, and  died  there  on  November  22,  1854,  at  the  age 

of  57- 

He  bequeathed  to  the  College  the  Harmer  Scholarship 
fund,  now  amounting  to  over  $11,000,  for  aiding  deserving 
and  needy  undergraduates  in  obtaining  an  education. 

John  Nelson  Jones  entered  College  from  Huntsville, 
Madison  County,  Alabama  (then  included  in  Mississippi 
Territory).     He  was  born  in  1794. 

He  returned  to  Huntsville  after  graduation,  but  no  par- 
ticulars of  his  later  life  are  known. 

Earl  Loomis,  the  youngest  child  of  Benoni  and  Grace 
(Parsons)  Loomis,  of  Columbia,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
Columbia  (then  part  of  Lebanon)  on  September  16,  1794. 

He  became  a  physician,  and  married  on  September  22, 
1824,  Louisa,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  David  and  Sally  (Wat- 
son) Dickinson,  of  Columbia. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  37 

From  1828  to  1838  he  practiced  his  profession  in  Enfield, 
and  then  removed  to  Herkimer  County,  New  York.  After 
a  brief  sojourn  in  Frankfort,  he  settled  permanently  in 
Herkimer,  where  he  died  on  May  12,  or  13,  1858,  in  his 
64th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  1870,  aged  JJ  years. 

His  children  were,  a  daughter  who  died  unmarried,  and 
a  son  who  died  in  infancy. 

RoMEO  LowREY,  the  fourth  son  of  Daniel  and  Anna 
(Munson)  Lowrey,  of  Bristol,  within  the  limits  of  the  par- 
ish of  Southington,  Connecticut,  and  grandson  of  Thomas 
Lowrey,  an  emigrant  from  Ireland,  was  born  on  October  8, 
1793,  and  was  only  able  to  come  to  College  by  the  most 
rigid  economy. 

For  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  was  tutor  in  a  pri- 
vate family  near  Winchester,  Virginia,  and  then  studied  law 
with  Ansel  Sterling,  of  Sharon,  Connecticut. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1820,  and  settled  in  South- 
ington, where  he  had  a  highly  creditable  career.  He  repre- 
sented the  town  in  the  Legislature  in  1830  and  1838,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  1844  and  1848,  serving 
in  the  latter  year  as  ex  officio  a  Fellow  of  the  College.  He 
also  held  office  as  Judge  of  Probate  and  Judge  of  the 
County  Court.  He  died  in  Southington  on  January  30, 
1856,  in  his  63d  year. 

He  married  on  May  14,  1828,  Elizabeth  Allen,  eldest  child 
of  Chester  and  Nancy  E.  (Wadsworth)  Whittlesey,  of 
Southington,  who  died  on  July  3,  1840,  in  her  30th  year. 
He  next  married,  on  August  i,  1841,  her  sister,  Laura  Ann. 
who  died  on  July  11,  1852,  in  her  37th  year.  By  his  first 
marriage  he  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters  (of  whom 
one  died  in  infancy)  ;  and  by  his  second  marriage  one  son. 
The  eldest  son  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1848,  and  the 
youngest  in  1864. 


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38  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Richard  Rutherford  Morris,  a  son  of  Colonel  Lewis 
Morris  (Princeton  Coll.  1774),  of  Morrisania,  New  York, 
and  grandson  of  Lewis  Morris  (Yale  1746),  the  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  was  born  in  1799. 

He  studied  law  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  but  never 
practiced. 

He  married  his  cousin,  Helen,  daughter  of  James  and 
Helen  (Van  Cortlandt)  Morris,  of  Morrisania,  and  sister 
of  James  V.  C,  Morris  (Yale  18 16),  by  whom  he  had  one 
son  and  four  daughters. 

His  life  was  spent  upon  his  farm  in  Pelham,  Westchester 
County,  where  he  died  in  the  spring  of  1866,  at  the  age 
of  67. 

Isaac  Orr,  a  son  of  the  Hon.  John  and  Sarah  (Houston) 
Orr,  of  Bedford,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  in  Bedford  in 
September,  1793.  A  half-brother,  who  became  a  Alember  of 
Congress,  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in  1798,  and 
a  full  brother  at  Dartmouth  in  181 5,  and  another  at  Yale 
in  1820.  His  classmate  Riddel  was  a  first  cousin.  While 
learning  a  trade  he  made  a  profession  of  religion,  and  then 
turned  to  an  education.  In  College  he  was  distinguished 
for  mathematical  ability. 

On  graduation  he  became  an  Associate  Instructor  in  the 
American  Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in  Hartford, 
where  he  remained  for  six  years,  or  until  he  took  charge 
of  a  similar  institution  in  Canajoharie,  New  York,  where  he 
married  Mary  Alorris. 

He  then  returned  to  New  Hampshire,  and  was  licensed 
to  preach  in  1827  by  the  Presbytery  of  Londonderry.  He 
was  subsequently  ordained  as  an  evangelist,  and  preached  in 
Tyngsborough,  Massachusetts,  while  also  teaching  in  the 
academy.  He  also  preached  in  Amherst,  but  was  prevented 
by  ill  health  from  a  permanent  settlement  in  the  ministry. 

He  finally  went  to  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  as  a 
missionary  among  the  colored  people,  in  the  employ  of  the 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  39 

American  Colonization  Society.  When  the  African  Educa- 
tion Society  was  formed,  in  December,  1829,  he  became  its 
Secretary,  and  the  editor  of  its  journal.  Later  he  edited 
the  American  Spectator  and  Washington  City  Chronicle, 
and  was  the  reporter  for  the  National  Intelligencer  in  the 
United  States  Senate. 

His  wife,  after  bearing  him  three  sons,  died  in  Washing- 
ton in  September,  1830;  and  he  married  secondly,  on 
August  23,  1831,  Matilda  H.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Kidder,  of  Medford,  Massachusetts,  who  bore  him  two 
sons. 

On  account  of  the  progress  of  consumption  he  retired  to 
Medford  in  the  spring  of  1842,  and  thence  in  1843  to 
Amherst,  where  he  died  on  April  28,  1844,  ^^  his  51st  year. 

He  made  many  contributions  to  the  press,  among  which 
may  be  mentioned  numerous  poems,  articles  on  abstruse 
mathematical  and  philosophical  subjects,  mostly  in  the 
Washington  papers  from  1833  to  1836,  and  valuable  political 
correspondence  in  Boston  and  New  York  papers  from  1835 
to  1838. 

Seneca  Pratt,  the  second  son  of  Captain  Gideon  and 
Hannah  (Southworth)  Pratt,  of  that  part  of  Saybrook,  Con- 
necticut, which  is  now  Essex,  was  born  on  November  5, 
1796.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Horace  S.  Pratt  (Yale 
181 7)  and  Nathaniel  A.  Pratt  (Yale  1820). 

He  became  a  merchant  in  x^labama,  whence  he  removed 
to  Clinton,  Mississippi,  where  he  died  in  September,  1848, 
in  his  52d  year. 

James  Raymond,  the  youngest  son  of  Daniel  Fitch  and 
Rachel  (Hillhouse)  Raymond,  of  Montville,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  July  4,  1797.  A  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1810. 

He  studied  law  in  Baltimore,  and  settled  in  practice  in 
Westminster,  Maryland,  where  he  died  on  January  27,  1858, 
in  his  61  St  year. 


40  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  married,  on  June  ii,  1823,  Caroline  R.,  daughter  of 
Judge  William  A.  Thompson  (Yale  1782),  of  Thompson, 
Sullivan  County,  New  York,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons 
and  two  daughters. 

Robert  Riddel,  the  second  son  of  Hugh  and  Ann  Maria 
(Houston)  Riddel,  of  Bedford,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
in  Bedford  in  1793.  He  entered  the  Class  with  his  first 
cousin,  Isaac  Orr, — their  grandfather  being  the  Rev.  John 
Houston  (Princeton  Coll.  1753),  of  Bedford.  Another 
first  cousin,  Freeman  Riddell,  was  graduated  in  1819. 

He  became  a  physician  and  entered  on  a  promising  career 
in  his  native  town,  which  was  closed  by  his  early  death,  on 
December  17,  1828,  in  his  36th  year. 

Levi  Smith,  son  of  Joel  and  Patience  (Beers)  Smith,  of 
Bridgewater  Parish,  in  New  Milford,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  November  12,  1789. 

He  was  converted  under  the  preaching  of  the  Rev.  Asahel 
Nettleton,  and  after  graduation  studied  theology  with  Pro- 
fessor E.  T.  Fitch  in  New  Haven. 

He  was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  on  June  5,  1821,  and 
for  some  years  labored  in  evangelistic  work.  In  1825  he 
supplied  the  Congregational  Church  in  Milton  Parish,  in 
Litchfield. 

His  first  regular  settlement  was  over  the  Trinitarian 
Church  in  East  Sudbury,  now  Wayland,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  installed  on  January  21,  1829,  and  continued 
until  November  26,  1832. 

On  December  30,  1832,  he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  in  Kennebunkport,  Maine. 
This  post  he  resigned  on  January  10,  1838,  and  on  the  same 
day  he  took  charge  as  acting  pastor  of  the  newly  organized 
South  Church  in  the  same  place,  with  which  he  remained 
until  April  11,  1839. 

In  the  following  winter  he  began  preaching  in  South 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  where  he  was   installed  pastor  on 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  4 1 

May  6,  1840,  and  continued  until  his  dismission  on  May 
I,  1849. 

He  retained  his  residence  in  South  Windsor,  until  his 
death  there,  on  January  15,  1854,  in  his  65th  year. 

He  married,  in  April,  1829,  Lydia  Warren,  of  South 
Wilbraham,  Massachusetts. 

He  left  no  children. 

George  Spalding,  the  eldest  child  of  Judge  Luther  and 
Lydia  (Chaffee)  Spalding,  of  Brooklyn,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Brooklyn,  on  March  16,  1797.  He  was  a  first 
cousin  of  Luther  Spalding  (Yale  1810). 

After  graduation  he  settled  in  New  Haven,  and  became 
a  partner  of  General  Hezekiah  Howe  in  the  bookselling 
business. 

On  February  18,  1824,  he  was  married  to  Helen  Maria, 
daughter  of  Gad  Cowles,  of  Farmington. 

In  the  fall  of  1824  the  bookselling  business  was  broken 
up,  and  in  1827  he  removed  to  Middletown,  and  engaged  in 
manufacturing  and  other  enterprises. 

He  died  in  Yonkers,  New  York,  on  November  22,  1858,  in 
his  62d  year. 

He  had  no  children. 

James  Stuart  was  born  in  West  Barnet,  Vermont,  in 
1797,  and  entered  Yale  from  the  University  of  Vermont  at 
the  end  of  the  Junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  became  the  Preceptor  of  the  Acad- 
emy in  Peacham,  where  he  had  been  educated. 

He  died  in  St.  Johnsbury,  from  consumption,  on  May  10, 
1825,  aged  28  years,  and  was  buried  in  West  Barnet. 

John  Smith  Tallmadge,  of  Warren,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  July  30,  1798,  the  son  of  John  and  Phebe  Tallmadge. 

He  married  Ann  Eliza  Smith,  of  Albany,  in  1823,  and 
had  two  sons  who  died  young  in  Albany. 


42  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  died  in  Lyons,  New  York,  on  October  17,  1825,  in  his 
28th  year. 

Henry  Birdsall  Titus,  of  Flushing,  Long  Island,  was 
probably  born  in  1799. 

In  1826-27,  being  then  resident  in  New  York  City,  he 
was  a  student  in  Rutgers  Medical  College. 

He  is  marked  as  deceased  in  the  Triennial  Catalogue  of 
graduates  issued  in  1835. 

Edward  Turner,  of  North  Haven,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  July  8,  1797,  the  only  child  of  Edward  Turner,  who  died 
in  April,  1797,  and  Chloe  (Humaston)  Turner,  and  grand- 
son of  James  and  Lois  Turner. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  the  Weston 
Academy,  and  in  1820-21  he  was  the  Rector  of  the  New 
Haven  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  For  two  years  (1821- 
23)  he  was  a  member  of  the  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary, and  then  became  a  tutor  in  Middlebury  College, 
Vermont,  where  in  1825  he  was  elected  to  the  professorship 
of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy,  which  he  filled  for 
the  remainder  of  his  life. 

He  married,  on  August  29,  1829,  Sophronia,  fourth 
daughter  of  Colonel  Seth  Storrs  (Yale  1778),  of  Middle- 
bury.  Their  children  were  three  sons  (one  of  whom  died 
in  infancy)  and  a  daughter. 

He  died  in  Middlebury,  from  inflammation  of  the  bowels, 
on  January  27,  1838,  in  his  41st  year.  His  wife  survived 
him  for  many  years. 

Professor  Turner  was  of  a  very  reserved  disposition,  but 
was  regarded  as  an  accurate  scholar,  both  in  languages  and 
mathematics. 

Henry  Vaughan,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Margaret 
(Anderson)  Vaughan,  was  born  on  March  31,  1800,  at 
Cherry  Vale  plantation,  Stateburg  township,  Sumter  County, 
South  Carolina,  and  after  two  years  in  the  South  Carolina 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1818  43 

College,  now  the  University  of  South  Carolina,  in  Columbia, 
entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year.  A  younger 
brother  entered  the  Class  of  1823  at  Yale,  but  died  here,  just 
after  the  opening  of  his  Junior  year. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  as  a  graduate  student,  during 
at  least  a  part  of  the  year  after  graduation,  and  then 
returned  to  his  native  township,  where  he  lived  for  many 
years  on  his  plantation.  From  1830  to  1834  he  was  a 
vestryman  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Clermont,  in  State- 
burg,  in  which  he  had  been  baptized,  and  in  which  a  daugh- 
ter of  himself  and  his  wife  Emma  was  baptized  in  1829. 

About  1836  he  sold  his  plantation  in  Stateburg,  and 
removed  to  Mississippi,  where  he  became  a  cotton-planter, 
and  where  he  died,  after  1840. 

A  son,  who  was  a  Captain  in  the  i8th  Mississippi  Regi- 
ment of  the  Confederate  service,  died  in  Stateburg  in 
March,  1864,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  relatives  there,  recuper- 
ating from  wounds  received  at  Sharpsburg  and  Gettysburg. 

Lewis  Weld,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  Ludovicus  Weld 
(Harvard  1789)  and  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Weld,  of  Hampton, 
Connecticut,  was  born  in  Hampton  on  October  17,  1796. 
A  brother  was  graduated  in  1822. 

He  was  looking  forward  to  the  ministry ;  but  when  in  his 
Senior  year  an  application  was  made  to  the  College  for 
instructors  for  the  new  American  Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  in  Hartford,  and  he,  with  his  classmate  Orr,  was 
recommended  for  that  work,  he  accepted  the  offer,  and 
began  his  teaching  in  May,  1818. 

After  four  and  a  half  years'  service,  he  became  principal 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in 
Philadelphia;  and  from  this  post  he  was  recalled  to  Hart- 
ford in  the  fall  of  1830,  to  succeed  Dr.  Gallaudet  as  the 
head  of  the  American  Asylum. 

In  this  position  he  continued  with  credit  until  his  death. 
His   health  was   always   delicate,   and   in    1844  he  visited 


44  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Europe  for  relief  and  to  inspect  other  institutions  like  that 
over  which  he  presided. 

He  went  again  in  August,  1853,  in  the  vain  hope  of 
improvement ;  but  only  returned  in  time  to  die  at  his  home, 
from  congestion  of  the  lungs,  on  December  30,  in  his 
58th  year. 

He  married,  on  May  7,  1828,  Mary  Austin,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Mason  F.  Cogswell  (Yale  1780),  of  Hartford, 
who  died  in  Hartford  on  November  12,  1867,  in  her  67th 
year. 

Their  children  were  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  The 
eldest  son  is  enrolled  in  the  Class  of  1852  in  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  and  the  youngest  was  graduated  from  the 
College  in  1854. 

Frederick  Whittlesey,  the  eldest  child  of  Deacon  David 
and  Martha  (Pomeroy)  Whittlesey,  of  New  Preston 
Society,  in  Washington,  Connecticut,  and  a  nephew  of 
Elisha  Whittlesey  (Yale  1779),  was  born  on  June  12,  1799. 

After  studying  law  in  Albany,  in  the  Litchfield  Law 
School,  and  in  Cooperstown,  New  York,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  October,  1821,  and  began  practice  in  Coopers- 
town.  In  the  summer  of  1822  he  removed  to  Rochester, 
where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life,  highly  esteemed  and 
honored. 

He  was  a  strong  anti-Mason,  and  as  such  served  two 
terms  in  Congress,  from  1831  to  1835.  In  1839  he  was 
made  Vice-Chancellor  of  the  Eighth  judicial  district  of  the 
State,  and  held  office  until  that  position  was  abolished, 
under  the  new  constitution  in  1847,  when  he  was  put  on 
the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court,  until  that  also  was  super- 
seded in  July,  1848. 

For  the  last  year  of  his  life  he  held  the  office  of  Professor 
of  Law  in  Genesee  College,  a  Methodist  institution,  in 
Lima. 

He  died  in  Rochester,  from  typhus  fever,  on  September 
19,  1 85 1,  in  his  53d  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  45 

He  married,  on  September  12,  1825,  Ann,  elder  daughter 
of  Josiah  Bissell  and  Temperance  Hinsdale,  of  Rochester, 
and  sister  of  Theodore  Hinsdale  (Yale  1821). 

She  died  in  Rochester  on  October  22,  1890,  in  her  89th 
year.  They  had  five  sons  and  four  daughters;  one  son 
was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1847. 

Spencer  Wood,  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  entered  Yale 
at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  medicine  in  New  York,  receiving  his  degree 
from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1822. 

He  settled  in  Natchez,  Mississippi,  where  he  had  a  suc- 
cessful career  and  acquired  a  competence.  About  1835  or 
36  he  was  baptized  by  Bishop  Otey,  of  Tennessee,  and  iden- 
tified himself  with  the  Episcopal  Church,  though  he  was 
not  confirmed  until  1862. 

He  died  in  Natchez,  of  rheumatism,  on  February  23,  1875, 
aged  78  years.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  Senior 
Warden  of  Trinity  Church. 


CLASS    OF    1819 

Jonathan  Humphrey  Bissell,  the  eldest  child  of  Titus 
Lucretius  and  Eunice  (Humphrey)  Bissell,  of  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  June  9,  1800.  In  his  boyhood  the 
family  removed  to  Hartford. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Nathaniel  Terry  (Yale 
1786),  of  Hartford,  and  began  practice  in  New  Orleans; 
but  in  1824  was  induced  by  friends  to  remove  to  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  where  he  continued  in  practice  for  a  time, 
with  the  most  encouraging  prospects.  He  was  also  a  good 
linguist  and  practical  chemist. 

He  relinquished  his  profession,  perhaps  about  1830,  to 
become  the  manager  and  agent  of  a  company  recently  organ- 
ized to  develop  mining  for  gold  near  Charlotte,  North  Caro- 
lina.    He    retained   this   position   until   his    death,    having 


46  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

twice  in  the  interval  visited  Europe  on  the  business  of  the 
company. 

While  on  a  journey  from  Charlotte  to  New  York  City, 
he  was  taken  ill  in  Philadelphia  with  pneumonia,  and  died 
there,  a  week  later,  on  March  18,  1845,  in  his  45th  year.  He 
was  never  married. 

William  Lewis  Buffett,  the  elder  son  of  the  Rev.  Piatt 
Buffett  (Yale  1791),  of  Stanwich  parish,  in  Greenwich, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  April  22,  1799. 

He  entered,  in  the  fall  of  1820,  the  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  where  he  spent  three  years.  At  this  time  his 
hope  was  to  become  a  foreign  missionary.  He  was  licensed 
to  preach  by  the  Haverhill  Association  of  Ministers  on 
August  12,  1823,  and  labored  for  two  or  three  years  as  a 
home  missionary  in  Maine  and  New  York. 

He  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  in  Stanwich  on  June 
27,  1827,  and  went  to  the  Western  Reserve  of  Ohio,  where 
he  was  installed  on  December  7  as  pastor  of  the  church  in 
Atwater,  Portage  County,  with  which  he  remained  until 
1833.  After  briefer  engagements  in  the  same  vicinity,  he 
w^as  installed  over  the  Congregational  Church  in  Tamworth, 
New  Hampshire,  on  July  19,  1837,  from  which  he  was  dis- 
missed on  March  22,  1842. 

The  rest  of  his  life  was  spent  in  home  missionary  labor, 
especially  in  LaSalle,  Michigan  (1845-52),  and  Perrysville, 
Indiana,  from  1853  until  his  death  in  Perrysville,  after  four 
days'  illness,  on  August  29,  1856,  in  his  58th  year. 

He  married  Abby  (Latimer),  widow  of  Asa  Pratt,  who 
survived  him.  They  had  no  children ;  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Buffett  by  her  former  husband  was  the  first  wife 
of  Thomas  Buchanan  Read,  the  poet  and  artist. 

Ichabod  Bulkley,  son  of  Daniel  and  Anna  Bulkley,  was 
born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  on  April  24,  1799.  The 
family  removed  to  Hartford  in  181 2. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  47 

During  the  winter  after  graduation  he  taught  school  in 
Windsor;  and  in  1820  began  the  study  of  law,  at  first  with 
Judge  Stephen  T.  Hosmer  (Yale  1782)  in  Middletown,  and 
later  with  William  W.  Ellsworth  (Yale  1810)  in  Hartford. 

On  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  settled  in  Ashford,  and 
soon  gained  a  prominent  position  at  the  bar  of  both  Wind- 
ham and  Tolland  counties.  He  was  for  a  time  Judge  of 
Probate  for  the  Ashford  district;  and  in  1836,  and  again  in 
1837,  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate. 

While  in  attendance  at  the  Legislature,  in  May,  1837,  he 
died  from  congestion  of  the  lungs,  after  a  week's  illness,  at 
his  father's  house,  in  Hartford,  on  May  24,  in  his  39th  year. 

He  married,  in  October,  1827,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Alva 
Simmons,  of  Ashford,  who  survived  him.  They  had  five 
children. 

Norman  Bull,  son  of  John  and  Martha  (Rogers)  Bull, 
of  Harwinton,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  March  11,  1799. 

During  the  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  the  acade- 
mies in  Washington  and  Danbury,  in  his  native  State.  The 
following  winter  he  taught  in  Winsted,  and  in  the  summer 
of  1 82 1  he  had  charge  of  the  academy  in  Harwinton, — at  the 
same  time  beginning  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Ros- 
well  Abernethy.  With  him  he  remained  until  the  fall  of 
1822,  when  he  entered  on  a  course  of  lectures  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  after  which  he  secured  a  license  to  practice. 

In  the  spring  of  1823  he  established  himself  as  a  physician 
in  South  Britain  parish,  in  Southbury;  and  in  1825 
removed  to  Watertown,  having  received  a  special  invitation 
to  do  so  from  the  Congregational  Society  in  that  place. 
Though  the  source  of  this  invitation  prejudiced  some  of  the 
community  against  him,  he  grew  constantly  in  the  public 
esteem,  and  had  the  prospect  of  great  success.  But  in  the 
fall  of  1830,  during  the  prevalence  of  typhus  fever  in  Water- 
town,  he  was  attacked  with  the  disease,  and  died  on  October 
20,  after  an  illness  of  about  three  weeks,  in  his  32d  year. 


48  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  married,  on  November  2^,  1823,  Lucy,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Catlin,  of  Harwinton,  who  long  survived  him, 
with  their  two  sons,  of  whom  the  elder  was  graduated  at 
Yale  in  1849. 

Graham  Hurd  Chapin  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Connect- 
icut, the  fourth  son  of  Phineas  and  Love  (Hurd)  Chapin, 
on  February  10,  1799. 

He  studied  law  after  graduation,  and  in  1823  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  Lyons,  Wayne  County,  New  York. 
His  career  was  successful,  and  he  held  the  office  of  County 
Surrogate  from  March,  1826,  to  February,  1833,  was  Dis- 
trict Attorney  for  one  year  (1829-30),  and  Democratic 
member  of  Congress  from  December,  1835,  to  March,  1837. 

He  then  retired  from  public  life,  and  removed  to  Roches- 
ter; where  he  resumed  his  profession,  and  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Mount  Morris,  Living- 
ston County,  on  September  6,  1843,  at  the  age  of  45. 

He  married,  in  1824,  Caroline  E.,  eldest  daughter  of 
Myron  and  Sally  (House)  Holley,  of  Rochester,  by  whom 
he  had  three  daughters  and  four  sons. 

David  Gardiner  Coit,  the  younger  son  of  David  and 
Betsey  (Calkins)  Coit,  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  December  28,  1800,  and  entered  College  in  1816. 
His  brother  was  a  graduate  of  the  Class  of  1818. 

He  studied  law  with  William  P.  Cleaveland  (Yale  1793), 
of  New  London,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

In  1822  he  removed  to  South  Carolina,  and  established 
himself  in  practice  in  Greenville,  in  the  northwestern  part 
of  the  State.  Li  1825  he  married  Maria  Campbell,  of  Marl- 
boro, in  the  northeastern  corner  of  the  State,  and  soon 
after  removed  thither,  and  took  up  his  residence  on  a 
plantation. 

In  June,  1837,  he  went  to  Philadelphia,  as  a  delegate  to 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  at 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  49 

the  close  of  their  sessions  he  revisited  his  native  city  for 
the  first  time  since  1822.     During  this  visit  he  went  on  an 
excursion  to  Niagara;   on  this  journey  he  v^as  taken  ill,  and 
died  at  Niagara  Falls  on  July  lo,  in  his  37th  year. 
He  had  six  children. 

George  Washington  Ewing,  son  of  Nathaniel  Ewing, 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1798.  His  family  removed  in 
1804  to  Vincennes,  Indiana  Territory,  whence  he  entered 
Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Vincennes 
in  1 82 1.  He  began  practice  there  in  partnership  with  John 
Law  (Yale  1814),  whose  sister,  Grace  Hallam  Law,  he  mar- 
ried on  May  i,  1837. 

He  maintained  a  high  standing  in  his  profession,  and  was 
regarded  as  one  of  the  best-read  lawyers  in  the  State.  He 
never  sought  office,  but  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Probate 
Court  of  Knox  County,  and  gave  much  satisfaction  in  that 
capacity. 

His  wife  died  on  September  28,  1838,  in  her  33d  year; 
their  only  child  died  in  infancy,  and  his  own  death  occurred 
within  one  month  of  his  wife's. 

Elnathan  Gridley,  the  elder  son  of  Elijah  Gridley 
(Yale  1784)  and  Hannah  (Whittlesey)  Gridley,  of  Farm- 
ington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  August  13,  1796,  and 
entered  College  in  1816. 

For  the  year  after  graduation  he  was  the  Principal  of 
the  Westfield  (Massachusetts)  Academy,  and  then  entered 
the  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  finished  the 
course  in  1823.  Meantime,  he  had  resolved  to  become  a  for- 
eign missionary ;  and  after  his  licensure  to  preach  by  the 
Hartford  North  Association  on  June  4,  1823,  he  was 
accepted  in  September  as  a  missionary  by  the  American 
Board.  For  a  short  time  he  served  as  an  agent  for  the 
Board  in  Connecticut ;  he  also  attended  a  course  of  lectures 


50  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

at  the  Berkshire  Medical  School,  in  Pittsfield,  and  spent 
some  time  in  further  study  in  the  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital  in  Boston. 

On  August  25,  1825,  he  was  ordained  in  Boston,  and 
sailed  three  weeks  later  for  mission  work  in  Palestine.  On 
account,  however,  of  an  unsettled  state  of  affairs  in  Jerusa- 
lem he  delayed  at  first  in  Malta,  and  finally  took  up  his 
residence  in  Smyrna  in  December,  1826,  and  labored  there 
zealously  until  his  health  became  impaired.  In  June,  1827, 
it  was  thought  advisable  for  him  to  go  inland  for  the  sum- 
mer months  to  Kaisarieh  (Caesarea),  in  the  ancient  Cappa- 
docia.  While  there  he  attempted  the  ascent  of  Mount 
Argaeus  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  but  was  prostrated  by 
an  attack  of  bilious  fever,  which  caused  his  death,  after 
fifteen  days,  on  September  27,  in  his  32d  year. 

Joseph  Alston  Hill,  a  son  of  the  Hon.  William  Henry 
Hill,  of  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  was  born  in  1799. 
His  father,  an  able  lawyer,  and  a  member  of  Congress  in 
1799-1803,  died  in  1809. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Litchfield  Law  School,  and  on 
November  16,  1820,  was  married  to  Elizabeth  D.,  daughter 
of  General  Matthias  Nicoll,  of  Stratford. 

On  his  return  to  Wilmington  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  182 1,  and  began  practice.  In  1823  he  was  elected  to  the 
State  Legislature,  and  retained  his  place  for  eight  years.  In 
183 1  he  was  made  a  Trustee  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  at  Chapel  Hill. 

He  died  in  Wilmington,  of  fever,  on  August  30,  1835,  at 
the  age  of  36,  and  was  mourned  as  a  man  of  unusual  bril- 
liancy and  eminent  promise.  His  wife  survived  him,  with- 
out children. 

Sylvester  Hovey,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (or  Polly) 
Hovey,  of  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  June  17, 
1797.     His  father  died  in  1800,  and  his  mother,  a  daughter 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  5 1 

of  the  Rev.  John  Storrs  (Yale  1756),  next  married  Deacon 
EHsha  Billings  (Yale  1772),  of  Conway,  Massachusetts. 
He  entered  College  in  1816,  and  at  graduation  delivered 
the  Valedictory  Oration. 

As  his  health  was  not  firm,  he  spent  two  or  three  years 
in  rest  and  travel.  For  four  years  from  the  fall  of  1822 
he  filled  a  tutorship  at  Yale,  in  the  meantime  also  studying 
theology;  during  the  last  year  of  his  service  he  took  the 
duties  of  Professor  Goodrich,  of  the  chair  of  Rhetoric  and 
English  Literature,  who  was  absent  in  Europe. 

In  1827  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Philosophy  in  Williams  College;  but  after  two 
years'  service,  he  resigned  to  accept  a  like  position  in 
Amherst  College.  In  183 1  he  visited  Europe,  partly  for 
health  and  incidentally  to  procure  for  Amherst  necessary 
books  and  apparatus,  and  remained  for  about  eighteen 
months. 

In  the  fall  of  1833  he  was  compelled  by  threatening  con- 
sumption to  resign  his  professorship.  On  November  25,  he 
married  Mary  Jane,  third  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas 
Chester  (Yale  1780),  of  Hartford,  and  with  her  he  spent 
two  winters  (1835-36  and  1836-37)  in  Santa  Cruz  and  the 
British  West  Indies,  and  while  there  investigated  the  work- 
ings of  negro  emancipation.  On  his  return  he  published, 
in  1838,  a  volume  of  "Letters  from  the  West  Indies,"  which 
won  general  approval  from  its  candid  temper  and  sound 
judgment.  While  in  the  West  Indies  he  also  gave  much 
time  to  natural  history,  especially  conchology  and  geology. 

For  the  rest  of  his  life  he  was  a  confirmed  invalid.  His 
wdfe  died  of  consumption  in  Hartford  on  January  11, 
1840,  in  her  36th  year;  and  his  own  death  followed,  in  the 
same  city,  on  May  6,  1840,  at  the  age  of  nearly  43. 
Their  two  children  died  in  infancy  or  early  childhood. 

Samuel  Dickinson  Hubbard,  the  only  child  of  Elijah 
and  Abigail   (Dickinson)    Hubbard,  of  Middletown,  Con- 


52  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

necticut,  was  born  on  August  lO,  1799.  A  half-brother 
was  graduated  here  in  1795.  His  mother  was  a  step-sister 
of  Professor  Benjamin  SilHman  (Yale  1796).  His  father 
died  suddenly  in  1808,  leaving  a  large  estate. 

He  studied  law  for  two  years  with  Seth  P.  Staples  (Yale 
1797)  in  New  Haven,  and  on  his  admission  to  the  bar 
opened  an  office  in  Middletown ;  but  soon  gave  up  practice, 
to  engage  in  business  as  a  manufacturer  of  broadcloths, 
which  occupied  him  until  about  1840. 

He  was  also  prominent  in  public  affairs  and  highly 
trusted.  He  was  Mayor  of  the  city  in  1840-42.  He  was  a 
Trustee  of  Wesleyan  University  in  Middletown  from  1831 
until  his  death,  and  received  from  that  institution  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  in  1854. 

He  served  two  terms  (1845  to  1849)  i^  Congress,  as  a 
Whig;  and  from  September,  1852,  to  March,  1853,  was  a 
member  of  President  Fillmore's  cabinet  as  Postmaster- 
General. 

After  a  severe  illness  of  more  than  six  months,  he  died 
in  Middletown,  from  congestion  of  the  brain,  on  October 
10,  1855,  in  his  57th  year. 

He  married  in  February,  1835,  Jane,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Miles,  of  Milford,  who  survived  him.  They  had  no 
children. 

Robert  Kortright,  third  son  of  Captain  John  Kortright, 
of  Harlem,  New  York,  and  grandson  of  Lawrence  Kort- 
right, a  wealthy  Loyalist  merchant  of  New  York  City,  was 
born  in  1800.  His  mother  was  Catharine,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Seaman,  of  New  York,  and  after  his  father's 
death  in  1810,  she  married  Judge  Henry  Brockholst  Liv- 
ingston (Princeton  Coll.  1774),  of  New  York  and  Wash- 
ington.    A  sister  of  his  father  married  President  Monroe. 

He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Samuel  Borrowe,  of  New 
York,  and  took  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1823  at  the  College 
of   Physicians  and   Surgeons.     He  then  went  to  Europe, 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  53 

and  spent  two  years  in  London  and  Paris,  attending  medi- 
cal lectures  and  observing  hospital  practice. 

On  his  return  to  New  York  he  was  urged  by  General 
Alvear,  of  Buenos  Ayres,  to  accompany  him  to  that  country, 
and  establish  himself  as  a  physician.  The  inducements 
offered  led  him  to  accept  the  proposition,  and  he  remained 
there  for  five  years  in  very  successful  practice,  particularly 
in  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear. 

After  his  return,  he  made  New  York  City  his  headquar- 
ters in  a  life  of  leisure  for  several  years. 

He  then  retired  to  a  farm  at  Oyster  Bay,  on  Long  Island, 
where  he  married. 

He  died  there  on  July  3,  1842,  in  his  43d  year.  His  only 
child,  a  son,  died  in  1844,  and  his  widow  in  1846. 

Jeremy  Park  hurst,  the  second  son  of  Ephraim  and 
Elizabeth  (Look)  Parkhurst,  of  Framingham,  Massachu- 
setts, was  bom  on  July  19,  1794,  and  entered  Yale  in  1816. 
A  brother  was  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1812; 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  H.  Parkhurst  (Amherst  Coll.  1866) 
is  a  nephew. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  settled  in  practice  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

He  died,  unmarried,  on  October  4,  1843,  in  his  50th  year. 

Theodore  Woolsey  Porter,  the  second  son  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  Porter  (Harvard  1786)  and  Fidelia  (D wight) 
Porter,  was  born  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  on  July  15, 
1799.  Both  his  parents  were  grandchildren  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  (Yale  1720),  his  mother  being  a  sister  of  Presi- 
dent D wight  (Yale  1769).  They  removed  to  New  Haven 
about  1807. 

He  studied  law  with  Charles  Chauncey  (Yale  1792),  in 
Philadelphia,  but  his  father's  death,  in  March,  1821,  and  his 
own  imperfect  health,  gave  a  new  turn  to  his  plans,  so  that 
he  relinquished  his  legal  studies  and  devoted  himself  to 
teachinsf. 


54  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  spent  some  years  as  a  private  tutor  in  a  family  in 
Virginia;  and  in  1834  became  associated  with  his  elder 
brother  (Yale  1816)  as  one  of  the  Principals  of  the  Wash- 
ington Institute,  a  flourishing  boarding-school  for  boys  in 
New  York  City,  which  was  under  their  joint  care  until  his 
death,  in  New  York,  on  April  3,  1855,  in  his  56th  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Edward  Henry  Purcell,  elder  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Henry  Purcell,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  was  born 
in  1800.  His  father,  an  Englishman  (B.A.  Christ  Church, 
Oxford,  1763),  died  in  1802,  and  his  mother  came  to  New 
Haven  for  the  education  of  her  sons.  The  younger  was 
for  a  time  a  member  of  the  Class  of  182 1  at  Yale,  and  was 
graduated  at  the  Medical  School  in  1824. 

He  married,  on  August  8,  1820,  Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of 
Nathan  Smith,  of  New  Haven,  afterwards  United  States 
Senator,  and  his  wife  Sarah  (McCrackan)  Smith. 

He  returned  to  Charleston,  but  later  settled  in  Stratford, 
Connecticut,  and  died  in  New  York  City  in  May,  1845,  at 
the  age  of  45. 

His  marriage  was  unhappy,  and  Mrs.  Purcell  returned 
to  New  Haven.       She  had  several  children. 

Freeman  Riddell,  the  second  son  of  William  and  Janet 
(Gilchrist)  Riddle,  of  Bedford,  New  Hampshire,  was  born 
on  March  13,  1798.  His  father  died  in  1813.  A  first 
cousin  was  graduated  in  1818. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  settled  as  a  physician  in  Upper 
Canada,  where  he  died  from  consumption  on  January  21, 
1826,  in  his  28th  year. 

John  Harleston  Rutledge  was  born  in  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  in  1800,  a  son  of  Edward  and  Jane  (Har- 
leston) Rutledge,  and  a  brother  of  the  graduates  of  1817 
and  1829. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1819  55 

He  returned  to  Charleston,  and  died  on  Sullivan's  Island, 
in  Charleston  Harbor,  on  July  29,  1822,  aged  22  years. 

PiNCKNEY  Spring,  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Spring 
(Princeton  1771)  and  Hannah  (Hopkins)  Spring,  of  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  July  19,  1798. 
Two  brothers  were  graduated  here,  in  1805  and  181 1, 
respectively. 

He  had  been  prepared  for  College  under  John  Adams 
(Yale  1795)  in  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  on  grad- 
uation returned  to  the  Academy  as  a  teacher.  While  thus 
engaged,  he  became  a  Christian,  and  formed  a  purpose  of 
studying  theology.  His  health,  however,  soon  became 
seriously  impaired,  and  an  epileptic  fit  issued  in  mental 
derangement,  in  the  summer  of  1820,  while  with  his 
brother,  the  Rev.  Gardiner  Spring,  at  Saratoga  Springs. 
He  was  removed  to  Albany,  where  he  died  on  September  9, 
in  his  23d  year. 

Shadrach  [Howell]  Terry,  of  Riverhead,  Long  Island, 
entered  Yale  from  Princeton  College  at  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year.  He  assumed  his  mother's  surname  as 
a  middle  name  after  graduation. 

He  taught  privately  in  Maryland  for  some  years,  until 
compelled  to  retire  by  ill  health.  He  then  returned  to  his 
early  home,  and  was  able  to  resume  teaching  in  Upper 
Aquebogue,  a  village  in  that  town.  Subsequently  he  was 
principal  of  an  academy  in  Delaware. 

He  finally  studied  theology,  and  about  1830  was  ordained 
and  installed  as  pastor  of  two  Presbyterian  churches,  in 
Somerset  and  Jenners,  Pennsylvania.  About  1835  he 
retired  from  this  duty,  and  was  installed  over  the  church 
in  Johnstown,  Cambria  County,  where  he  remained  until 
his  death,  after  nine  days'  illness,  on  June  9,  1841,  aged 
45  years. 


56  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  married  Elizabeth  Pond,  of  Delaware,  who  survived 
him  with  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

William  Thomas,  son  of  Edward  and  Anne  (Oakley) 
Thomas,  of  Harrison,  Westchester  County,  New  York,  was 
bom  in  1799.  His  name,  while  an  undergraduate,  was 
written  William  O.  F.  L.  Thomas. 

He  went  into  business  as  a  broker  in  New  York  City, 
and  lost  all  his  inherited  property.  Later,  he  opened  a 
lottery  office  there,  and  was  so  occupied  until  his  death,  in 
New  York,  on  August  22,  1836,  aged  37  years.  He  was 
never  married. 

Henry  Dana  Artemas  Ward,  the  only  surviving  child 
of  Henry  Dana  Ward  (Harvard  1791)  and  Mary  Eliza 
(Smith)  Ward,  was  born  in  Orangeburg,  South  Carolina, 
on  May  30,  1800.  His  father,  a  son  of  General  Artemas 
Ward,  of  Shrewsbury,  Massachusetts,  settled  in  Columbia, 
South  Carolina,  married  a  Charleston  lady,  and  died  in 
1817.  The  son's  boyhood  was  spent  in  the  family  of  an 
aunt  in  Middletown,  Connecticut. 

For  some  years  after  graduation  he  resided  in  Columbia. 
Meantime  he  married,  on  November  9,  1820,  his  first  cousin, 
Eliza  B.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  and  Maria  (Ward) 
Tracy,  of  Middletown. 

He  finally  removed  with  his  family  to  Middletown,  but 
while  on  a  visit  to  Columbia  on  business,  was  taken  ill  and 
died  there  on  April  3,  1827,  in  his  27th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him.  Of  their  three  children,  the  only 
one  who  survived  infancy  was  graduated  here  in  1842. 

Elias  William  Williams,  the  younger  son  of  the  Rev. 
Joshua  Williams  (Yale  1780),  of  Harwinton.  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  September  16,  1797. 

He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Roswell  Abernethy,  of 
Harwinton,  and  attended  courses  of  lectures  in  the  medical 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  182O  57 

schools  at  New  Haven  (1821-22)  and  New  York.  He  was 
licensed  to  practice  in  1822,  and  established  himself  in 
Bethlehem,  Connecticut,  in  association  with  Dr.  Conant 
Catlin,  who  had  married  his  sister. 

On  April  3,  1823,  he  married  Mary  Ann,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  John  Griswold  and  Elizabeth  (Mason)  Hill- 
house,  of  Montville,  who  was  nearly  a  year  his  senior. 

About  1826  he  removed  to  Troy,  New  York,  where  he 
went  into  business  as  a  druggist.  He  soon,  however,  broke 
down  with  consumption,  and  died  in  Claverack,  while  on 
a  journey  from  Troy  to  New  York  City,  on  September  28, 
1828,  at  the  age  of  31  years. 

His  widow  long  survived  him,  with  one  daughter ;  another 
daughter  and  a  son  died  in  infancy. 


CLASS  OF    1020 

Abraham  Baldwin,  the  second  son  of  Elisha  and 
Clarissa  (Judd)  Baldwin,  of  Goshen,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  May  i,  1792. 

He  studied  theology  with  his  pastor,  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Harvey  (Yale  1808),  and  was  licensed  to  preach  in  June, 
1822,  by  the  North  Association  of  Litchfield  County. 

His  health  was  always  feeble,  but  he  engaged  in  the  serv- 
ice of  the  Vermont  Domestic  Missionary  Society,  and  was 
ordained  as  an  EvangeHst,  in  Essex,  on  January  21,  1824. 

In  connection  with  his  work,  he  became  much  interested 
in  the  condition  of  the  French  Canadians,  and  about  the 
beginning  of  June,  1826,  went  to  Montreal,  and  began  the 
study  of  the  French  language,  with  the  purpose  of  devoting 
himself  to  missionary  work  there.  He  soon  fell  ill,  and 
was  taken  to  the  house  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  S.  Christmas,  a 
recent  graduate  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and 
pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  in  Montreal.  He  died 
there  on  July  12,  in  his  35th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


50  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

George  Newton  Bigelow,  the  youngest  son  of  Asa  and 
Lydia  (Newton)  Bigelow,  of  Colchester,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  April  4,  1799.  A  sister  married  the  Rev.  Jared 
Reid  (Yale  1817). 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  Yale 
Medical  School,  and  continued  it  under  private  tuition. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  East  Haddam,  but  later  removed 
to  Palmyra,  New  York,  where  he  died  on  January  21,  1867, 
in  his  68th  year. 

He  married,  on  January  26,  1835,  Hannah  Seeley,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son  and  two  daughters. 

Theodore  Chapman  Cone,  the  younger  son  of  Joshua 
and  Chloe  (Chapman)  Cone,  of  East  Haddam,  Connect- 
icut, and  brother  of  Francis  H.  Cone  (Yale  1818),  was 
born  in  East  Haddam  on  October  2,  1799. 

He  died,  unmarried,  in  183 1. 

Francis  Bureau  Deshon,  son  of  Captain  Daniel  Deshon, 
of  New  London,  Connecticut,  by  his  third  wife,  Sally  Rob- 
inson, and  grandson  of  Henry  and  Bathsheba  Deshon,  of 
New  London,  was  born  on  March  17,  1802,  and  entered  at 
the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  law  and  settled  in  practice  in  Mobile,  Ala- 
bama, where  he  died  on  July  18,  1825,  aged  2^  years. 

Daniel  Noble  Dewey,  son  of  the  Hon.  Daniel  Dewey 
(honorary  M.A.  Yale  1792),  a  distinguished  lawyer  and 
judge,  of  Williamstown,  Massachusetts,  and  of  Maria 
(Noble)  Dewey,  was  born  in  Williamstown  on  April  4. 
1800. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Elijah  H.  Mills,  of  North- 
ampton, and  settled  in  practice  in  his  native  town,  where 
he  married,  on  May  9,  1827,  Eliza  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Lyman  and  Louisa  (Rossiter)  Hubbell.  He  was  largely 
employed  in  the  public  service  and  greatly  trusted  for  his 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  182O  59 

unblemished  integrity.  He  represented  the  town  in  the 
General  Court,  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council, 
and  Judge  of  Probate  from  1848  until  his  death. 

He  was  also  the  Treasurer  of  Williams  College  from 
1830,  and  Secretary  of  the  Corporation  from  1828. 

He  died  in  Williamstown  on  January  14,  1859,  in  his 
59th  year.  His  widow  died  in  Newton  on  November  22, 
1887,  in  her  82d  year.  Their  children  were  three  daughters 
and  three  sons. 

James  Gilbert  Dow,  the  second  son  of  Hendrick  (or 
Henry)  Dow  (Yale  1784),  of  Ashford,  Connecticut,  and 
grandson  of  Deacon  James  Gilbert,  of  New  Haven,  was 
born  on  May  3,  1798.  His  father  died  in  January,  1814, 
and  he  called  New  Haven  his  residence  while  in  College. 

While  enrolled  as  a  resident  graduate,  he  died  in  New 
Haven  on  March  28,  1821,  in  his  23d  year.  His  tombstone 
commemorates  his  vigorous  mind,  industrious  habits,  and 
exemplary  piety. 

Joseph  Hyde,  the  second  son  of  Deacon  Joseph  and 
Arete  (Jesup)  Hyde,  of  Green's  Farms,  then  a  parish  in 
Fairfield,  but  now  in  Westport,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  20,  1798. 

He  spent  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  and  received  a  license  to  preach, 
but  died  in  Litchfield  on  December  24,  or  27,  1824,  in  his 
27th  year,  unmarried. 

A  sister  married  Ebenezer  Andrews   (Yale  181 7),  and 
named  her  eldest  son  (Yale  1859)  for  this  brother. 

Chester  Isham  was  born  in  West  Hartford,  Connect- 
icut, on  March  29,  1798. 

He  supported  himself  in  College  by  his  own  exertions, 
and  in  the  latter  part  of  Sophomore  year  formed  the  inten- 


6o  RIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

tion  of  entering  the  ministry.  During  the  Junior  year  he 
taught  for  three  months  the  New  Canaan  Academy,  and 
was  soHcited  to  return  there  after  graduation. 

He  entered,  however,  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary 
in  November,  1820,  and  completed  the  three  years'  course. 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  on  June  3,  1823,  by  the  Hartford 
North  Association  of  Ministers. 

Before  leaving  Andover  he  was  invited  to  preach  to  the 
recently  organized  Trinitarian  Church  in  Taunton,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  and  the  result  of  this  experience  was  a  unanimous 
call  to  the  pastorate.  He  was  ordained  and  installed  there 
on  February  18,  1824.  He  was  married  in  the  following 
May  to  Diana  Comstock,  of  New  Canaan. 

His  position  was  in  some  respects  an  arduous  one,  and 
his  unremitting  industry,  under  the  conditions  of  feeble 
health,  brought  on  by  September  symptoms  of  consumption, 
which  forbade  his  enduring  another  New  England  winter. 

On  October  16,  he  sailed  from  Boston  for  Cuba,  whence 
he  went  about  the  ist  of  February  to  Charleston, 
South  Carolina.  His  health  failed  so  visibly  that  the  only 
hope  remaining  was  that  he  might  accomplish  the  voyage  to 
Massachusetts,  so  as  to  die  and  be  buried  at  home. 
Accordingly,  he  embarked  on  April  9,  and  ten  days  later 
reached  Boston,  where  he  was  taken  to  the  house  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Wisner,  and  died  the  next  day,  at  the  age  of  27. 
He  was  buried  in  Taunton.  An  infant  child  survived  him. 
Mrs.  Isham  died  in  1832. 

Daniel  Hedge  Johnson,  son  of  Daniel  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Portland,  Maine,  on  July  28,  1801,  and  entered  at 
the  opening  of  Sophomore  year  from  New  York  City. 

After  graduation  he  studied  theolog}'  privately,  and  in 
June,  1826,  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Mendham,  Morris  County,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  spent  his  life  in  useful  service. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  182O  61 

On  the  first  Sunday  of  the  year  1852,  he  suffered  a  severe 
shock  of  paralysis,  which  caused  his  death  on  July  i,  in 
his  51st  year. 

Richard  Henry  Lee,  son  of  Henry  Lee,  of  Washington, 
Mason  County,  Kentucky,  was  born  on  October  8,  1801, 
and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  and  practiced  law,  and  after 
engaging  in  other  pursuits  conducted  with  ability  the  Eagle, 
a  journal  in  Maysville,  in  his  native  county.  Subsequently 
he  went  to  Washington,  and  after  the  Hon.  Thomas  Corwin 
entered  President  Fillmore's  cabinet  in  1850  as  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury,  he  became  his  private  secretary. 

About  the  beginning  of  1853  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
where  he  became  the  senior  editor  and  publisher  of  the 
Cincinnati  Commercial. 

He  died  in  Cincinnati  from  an  attack  of  dysentery  on 
July  21,  1853,  in  his  52d  year.  His  wife  and  all  of  his 
children  except  one  daughter  were  in  Europe  at  the  time 
of  his  death. 

James  McElhenny,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Rev.  James 
McElhenny,  a  Presbyterian  minister  of  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  and  Susan  McElhenny,  was  born  in  April,  1802. 
His  mother  was  by  birth  a  Wilkinson,  and  had  first  married 
her  cousin  Francis  Wilkinson.  He  entered  Yale  at  the 
opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Charleston  in  1825.  Besides  practicing  his  profession,  he 
also  had  a  plantation  near  Charleston. 

He  died  in  Charleston  on  September  7,  1841,  in  his  40th 
year. 

He  married  Joanna  Wilson,  and  left  three  children. 

Matthew  Eliot  Mitchell,  son  of  Abner  and  Phoebe 
(Eliot)  Mitchell,  of  Washington,  Connecticut,  and  a  brother 


62  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

of  Professor  Elisha  Mitchell  (Yale  1813),  was  born  in 
1799. 

He  settled  in  his  native  town,  and  married,  in  1823, 
Eunice  M.,  second  daughter  of  Seth  Noble  and  Olive 
(Mitchell)  Wheeler,  of  South  Britain,  in  Southbury. 

He  died  in  Washington  on  December  15,  1827,  in  his 
29th  year.     He  left  two  daughters. 

Washington  Murray,  son  of  John  B.  Murray,  a  mer- 
chant of  New  York  City,  entered  as  a  Sophomore. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1824. 

He  began  practice  in  New  York,  but  died  in  Bordeaux, 
France,  on  April  15,  1828,  in  his  29th  year. 

A  nephew,  bearing  the  same  name,  was  graduated  in 
1849. 

Robert  Orr  was  born  in  Bedford,  New  Hampshire,  on 
December  23,  1797,  and  was  prepared  for  College  by  his 
brother,  Isaac  Orr  (Yale  1818). 

He  studied  law  with  his  half-brother,  Benjamin  Orr,  in 
Brunswick,  Maine,  and  settled  in  the  neighboring  town  of 
Topsham,  where  he  died  in  May,  1830,  in  his  33d  year. 

Seth  Birdseye  Paddock,  son  of  Seth  and  Phebe  (John- 
son) Paddock,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Connecticut,  on 
August  14,  1795,  and  was  prepared  for  College  at  the 
Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire,  entering  at  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year. 

He  began  the  study  of  theology  in  September,  1820,  in 
the  General  Theological  Seminary,  which  had  just  been 
removed  to  New  Haven,  and  was  admitted  to  Deacon's 
orders  by  Bishop  Brownell  in  New  Haven  on  April  10, 
1822.  He  was  soon  called  to  Christ  Church,  Norwich,  as 
a  colleague  with  the  Rev.  John  Tyler  (Yale  1765),  and  was 
advanced  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Brownell  in  Cheshire 
on  October  27,  1822. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  182O  63 

Mr.  Tyler  died  in  January,  1823,  and  Mr.  Paddock  con- 
tinued in  sole  charge  of  the  parish  with  entire  acceptance 
until  September,  1844,  when  he  was  urged  to  become  the 
Principal  of  the  Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire.  His 
career  as  a  teacher  was  also  successful,  until  the  failure  of 
his  health.  He  died,  after  a  protracted  and  painful  illness, 
in  Cheshire,  on  June  24,  185 1,  in  his  56th  year.  He  was 
buried  in  Middletown. 

He  married,  on  October  30,  1822,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Bethuel  and  Betsey  (Hull)  Flagg,  of  Cheshire,  who  died 
on  July  22,  1879. 

Of  a  large  family  of  children,  two  sons  became  Bishops 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, — the  elder  of  Wash- 
ington Territory,  and  the  younger  of  Massachusetts ; 
another  son  v/as  a  physician  in  Norwich. 

John  Parke  Custis  Peter,  son  of  Thomas  Peter,  of 
Georgetown,  District  of  Columbia,  was  born  in  1799  or 
1800.  His  mother,  Martha  Parke  Custis,  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  the  wife  of  General  Washington. 

He  spent  his  life  on  his  plantation,  about  thirty  miles  from 
Washington,  where  he  died  in  1848. 

Jeremiah  Halsey  Pierson,  a  son  of  Jeremiah  Halsey 
and  Sarah  (Colt)  Pierson,  of  Ramapo,  Rockland  County, 
New  York,  and  grandson  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Gilbert) 
Pierson,  was  born  in  1800. 

He  spent  his  life  in  Ramapo,  where  he  died  in  July,  185 1, 
in  his  51st  year. 

Zabdiel  Rogers,  the  eldest  child  of  Zabdiel  Rogers,  a 
merchant  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  and  of  Fanny 
Eldridge  (Starr)  Rogers,  was  bom  in  the  adjoining  town 
of  Groton  on  October  2,  1793. 

After  one  year  of  teaching,  he  spent  three  years  in  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  ordained  for  home 


64  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

missionary  service  on  September  30,  1824,  at  Boxford, 
Massachusetts. 

He  then  went  to  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  was 
pastor  of  a  church  in  Willtown,  Colleton  District,  about 
twenty-seven  miles  to  the  southwest,  from  November,  1824, 
to  December,  1847,  when  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis, 
which  caused  his  death  in  Charleston,  on  November  22, 
1852,  in  his  60th  year. 

He  married,  on  August  4,  1840,  Juliet  Smith  Mitchell,  the 
daughter  of  James  I.  Mitchell,  a  Charleston  merchant,  and 
Cornelia  Dorothy  (Van  der  Horst)  Mitchell,  who  survived 
him.     Their  children  were  one  daughter  and  one  son. 

Thomas  Sill  Sterling,  the  second  son  of  Colonel  Wil- 
liam and  Jemima  (Ely)  Sterling,  of  Lyme,  Connecticut, 
and  a  first  cousin  of  his  classmate,  John  M.  Sterling,  was 
born  in  Lyme  on  April  5,  1798. 

He  studied  law  and  settled  in  Winchester,  W^ayne  County, 
Mississippi.  He  married  on  May  25,  1824,  Mary  B.  Fal- 
coner, and  then  removed  about  thirty  miles  northwards  to 
Quitman,  in  Clarke  County,  which  was  thenceforth  his 
residence. 

After  having  served  for  two  terms  in  the  legislature, 
he  was  elected  in  1833,  under  the  new  State  constitution, 
Circuit  Judge  of  the  Pearl  River  circuit,  and  continued  in 
office  until  his  death,  at  Quitman,  from  typhoid  fever,  on 
January  26,  1839,  in  his  41st  year. 

His  wife  survived  him.  Their  children  were  two  sons 
and  a  daughter. 

Solomon  Stoddard,  Junior,  the  eldest  child  of  Solomon 
Stoddard  (Yale  1790),  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts, 
and  Sarah  (Tappan)  Stoddard,  was  born  in  Northampton 
on  November  29,  1800.  He  held  the  second  rank  at  grad- 
uation, delivering  the  Salutatory  Oration. 

He  devoted  himself  to  the  work  of  teaching,  and  from 
1822  to  1826  filled  a  tutorship  in  Yale. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  182O  65 

In  1828  he  became  a  teacher  in  the  New  Haven  Gymna- 
sium, conducted  by  Sereno  E.  Dwight  (Yale  1803)  and  his 
brother,  and  was  there  brought  into  intimate  relations  with 
Ethan  A.  Andrews  (Yale  1810),  which  resulted  in  their 
combining  to  publish  a  Latin  Grammar,  which  first 
appeared  in  1836,  and  attained  a  wonderful  circulation. 

Later  he  returned  to  Northampton,  and  early  in  1838  he 
accepted  the  chair  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy 
in  Middlebury  College,  Vermont,  vacated  by  the  death  of 
Professor  Edward  Turner  (Yale  1818). 

On  May  29,  1838,  he  married  Frances  Elizabeth  Green- 
wood, of  Northampton. 

Later  in  the  same  year  he  was  transferred  to  the  chair 
of  Latin  and  Greek,  which  he  retained  until  his  death,  in 
Northampton,  on  November  11,  1847,  at  the  age  of  47. 

His  children  were  two  daughters  and  three  sons. 

Edward  Pomeroy  Terry,  the  second  son  of  General 
Nathaniel  Terry  (Yale  1786),  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
and  Catharine  (Wadsworth)  Terry,  was  born  in  Hartford 
on  October  28,  1800.  A  brother  was  graduated  in  the 
next  class,  and  a  sister  married  Leonard  Bacon,  of  this 
class. 

After  a  course  of  study  in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  the  spring  of  1823,  and 
settled  in  practice  in  his  native  city. 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  by  Bishop  Brownell,  on 
June  24,  1823,  to  Sophia  Hamilton  Ross,  daughter  of  Car- 
lisle and  Anna  (Yates)  Pollock,  and  a  ward  of  the  Bishop, 
who  bore  him  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 

He  died  very  suddenly  in  Hartford  on  December  22,  1843, 
in  his  44th  year.  His  widow  died  on  July  5,  1868,  in  her 
64th  year. 

Gail  Fitch  Wheeler  was  a  native  of  that  part  of 
Huntington,  Connecticut,  which  is  now  Monroe.  He  called 
himself  Fitch  Wheeler  after  graduation. 

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66  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Bridgeport,  and  married,  on 
October  i8,  1833,  Ann  Grace,  daughter  of  the  late  John 
C.  Shaw,  of  New  York  City,  who'  survived  him  without 
children. 

He  died  on  board  the  ship  Whitmore  while  on  the  passage 
from  New  York  to  Santa  Cruz  for  his  health,  on  December 
24,  1837,  aged  about  36. 

Chauncey  Whittelsey,  third  son  of  Charles  and  Anna 
(Cutler)  Whittelsey,  of  New  Haven,  and  grandson  of  the 
Rev.  Chauncey  Whittelsey  (Yale  1738),  was  born  in  New 
Haven  on  September  6,  1801.  One  of  his  sisters  married 
the  Rev.  Samuel  B.  Ingersoll  (Yale  1817),  and  another 
married  the  Rev.  George  A.  Oviatt  (Yale  1835). 

He  spent  three  years  (1822-25)  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School,  and  received  a  license  to  preach  on  November  16, 
1824,  from  the  New  Haven  West  Association  of  Ministers, 
but  died  in  New  Haven  on  March  12,  1826,  in  his  25th 
year.  He  was  esteemed  for  his  amiable  disposition  and 
active  piety. 

John  Limbrey  Wilkins,  son  of  William  W.  and  Eliza- 
beth J.  (Rains)  Wilkins,  of  Greensville  County,  Virginia, 
was  born  on  February  16,  1801.  His  brothers  were  grad- 
uated here  in  1817  and  1822,  respectively. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Litchfield  Law  School,  and  settled 
on  a  plantation  in  Brunswick  County,  Virginia,  where  he 
died  on  March  8,  1843,  in  his  43d  year. 

John  Payson  Williston,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev. 
David  H.  Williston  (Yale  1787)  and  Susannah  (Bancroft) 
W^illiston,  was  born  in  Tunbridge,  Vermont,  in  1800. 

He  devoted  himself  to  teaching.  Thus,  in  1825,  he 
became  Principal  of  the  Grammar  School  connected  with 
Miami  University,  in  Oxford,  Ohio. 

He  died  at  his  father's  house  in  Tunbridge,  in  April, 
1829,  aged  29  years. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    182I  67 

CLASS    OF    182 1 

Augustus  Alvey  Adee,  the  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Clarissa  (Townsend)  Adee,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  in 
1803.     Five  sons  of  a  brother  have  been  graduated  at  Yale. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  the  spring  of  1824.  In  July  of  the  same  year  he 
entered  the  United  States  Navy,  with  the  rank  of  Surgeon's 
Mate,  becoming  a  Surgeon  in  January,  1828. 

He  married,  on  September  i,  1836,  Amelia  Kinnaird, 
daughter  of  David  Graham,  of  New  York,  and  established 
a  residence  in  Hallett's  Cove,  now  Astoria,  Long  Island, 
where  he  died  of  heart-disease,  on  February  23,  1844,  in 
his  41st  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  children.  One  son 
(honorary  M.A.  Yale  1888)  has  had  a  distinguished  career 
in  connection  with  the  Department  of  State. 

James  Anderson,  the  eldest  child  of  James  and  Mary 
(McQueen)  Anderson,  of  York,  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
on  December  12,  1798. 

He  studied  law  in  York,  and  in  1824  began  practice  there, 
but  fell  into  intemperate  habits. 

He  died  in  York  on  January  12,  1839,  in  his  41st  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

Lemuel  Whittlesey  Belden,  the  eldest  child  of  Dr. 
Joshua  Belden,  Jr.  (Yale  1787),  and  Dorothy  (Whittlesey) 
Belden,  of  Newington,  then  part  of  Wethersfield,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  on  January  6,  1801.  His  father  died  in 
1808. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  the  Principal  of 
the  New  Canaan  Academy,  and  then  began  the  study  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  Samuel  B.  Woodward,  of  Wethersfield. 
He  attended  a  course  of  lectures  in  the  Harvard  Medical 


68  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

School  in  the  winter  of  1824-25,  and  another  the  following 
winter  at  Yale,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1826.  For  the  next  year  he  assisted  Dr.  Woodward  in  his 
practice,  and  in  the  fall  of  1827  he  settled  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  rapidly  rising  to  eminence, 
when  he  died  of  typhus  fever,  on  October  26,  1839,  in  his 
39th  year. 

He  married,  on  May  7,  1829,  Catharine,  fourth  daughter 
of  Stephen  Chester  (Yale  1780),  of  Wethersfield,  who  died 
on  January  31,  1887,  in  her  8ist  year.  Their  only  child 
was  a  son  who  died  in  early  life. 

Alanson  Benedict,  son  of  Comfort  and  Sarah  (Pratt) 
Benedict,  was  born  in  that  part  of  Stratford,  Connecticut, 
which  is  now  Bridgeport,  probably  in  1798.  He  entered 
Yale  in  1818. 

On  graduation  he  joined  the  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary, where  he  completed  the  course  in  three  years.  He 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Fairfield  East  Association  of 
Ministers  on  April  24,  1824. 

On  December  9,  1825,  he  was  ordained  for  home  mission- 
ary service,  in  Trumbull,  at  the  same  time  that  a  pastor 
was  settled  there. 

He  spent  some  time  as  a  teacher  and  preacher  in  Wil- 
mington, North  Carolina,  and  also  supplied  various  pulpits 
at  the  North,  as  in  Danbury,  Connecticut  (about  1828),  and 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey. 

He  was  also  a  teacher  in  Darien,  Georgia,  and  elsewhere 
in  that  region,  and  in  1830-31  was  supplying  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  St.  Mary's,  Georgia. 

His  health  had  begun  to  fail,  from  severe  dyspepsia, 
while  he  was  in  the  Theological  Seminary;  and  about  1827, 
when  in  Georgia,  he  ruptured  a  blood-vessel.  From  that 
date  he  was  a  victim  of  consumption,  and  alternated  his 
residence  between  the  North  and  South,  being  able  to  preach 
but  little. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  69 

In  September,  1833,  he  left  New  York  for  Danville,  Vir- 
ginia, where  a  sister  was  teaching,  and  arrived  there,  very- 
much  exhausted,  on  September  28.  He  died  on  October 
I,  in  his  36th  year. 

Nathaniel  Blanch ard  entered  Yale  in  1820,  from 
Peacham,  Caledonia  County,  Vermont.  The  family  came 
to  Peacham  from  HoUis,  New  Hampshire. 

In  1822  he  went  to  Georgia  to  teach,  at  the  same  time 
studying  law;  and  he  settled  in  1824  in  Fayetteville,  where 
he  practiced  his  profession  for  twelve  years. 

He  died  of  bilious  fever,  while  on  a  visit  to  friends  in 
Hardwick,  Vermont,  on  August  i,  1836,  aged  36  years. 

William  Case,  son  of  William  Robe  and  Huldah 
(Loomis)  Case,  was  born  in  Winchester,  Connecticut,  on 
April  25,  1794.  His  father  had  emigrated  from  Winton- 
bury  Parish,  now  Bloomfield,  in  Windsor,  in  1793,  and 
returned  thither  after  a  few  years. 

He  spent  two  years  (1821-23)  in  the  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary;  and  .was  ordained  and  installed  on  Septem- 
ber I,  1824,  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
Chester,  then  a  parish  in  Saybrook,  Connecticut. 

On  December  2,  1824,  he  was  married  to  Chloe  Stough- 
ton,  of  his  native  parish. 

He  taught  a  select  school  during  a  large  part  of  his 
ministry  in  Chester,  and  though  rigid  in  his  theology  was 
earnest  and  efficient  in  his  church  work.  He  was  dismissed 
at  his  own  request  on  March  24,  1835,  and  during  the  fol- 
lowing year  was  acting  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  New  Hartford. 

For  the  next  six  years  he  resided  in  East  (now  South) 
Windsor,  for  part  of  the  time  serving  as  editor  of  The 
Watchman,  a  religious  weekly  newspaper  of  Hartford. 
His  wife  died  in  South  Windsor  on  August  15,  1840,  in  her 
43d  year. 


70  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

For  two  and  a  half  years  (1842-44)  he  supplied  the 
church  of  Middle  Haddam  Society,  in  Chatham ;  and  then 
taught  for  about  two  years  a  select  school  in  Higganum,  a 
parish  in  Haddam. 

He  next  served  as  acting  pastor  for  a  year  (1846-47) 
in  (North)  Madison,  whence  he  removed  to  Killingworth, 
where  he  was  able  for  some  time  to  conduct  a  school. 

Grief  for  the  loss  of  his  wife  and  other  causes,  however, 
induced  a  mild  form  of  insanity,  on  account  of  which  he 
was  removed  in  September,  1856,  to  the  Retreat  for  the 
Insane  in  Hartford,  where  he  died  on  April  28,  1858,  at 
the  age  of  64. 

His  children  were  three  daughters  and  two  sons. 

Paine  Wingate  Chase  entered  the  Class  in  1818,  with 
an  elder  brother,  from  the  village  of  Litchfield,  in  southern 
New  Hampshire,  on  the  Merrimac  River,  opposite  Nashua. 

In  1822  he  went  to  Louisiana  as  a  teacher.  Returning  to 
New  Hampshire,  he  took  charge  in  February,  1825,  of  the 
Academy  in  Hampton,  where  he  was  remarkably  success- 
ful. He  died  suddenly,  in  a  fit,  in  Hampton,  on  November 
4,  1826,  in  his  33d  year. 

Simeon  Chase,  a  brother  of  the  graduate  last  mentioned, 
entered  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

In  1822  he  went  to  Louisiana  as  a  teacher,  and  died  in 
July  of  that  year  in  West  Feliciana  County,  of  the  cold 
plague,  at  the  age  of  31  years. 

Asa  Child,  the  eldest  of  nine  children  of  Rensselaer  and 
Priscilla  (Corbin)  Child,  of  (North)  Woodstock,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  December  2,  1798.  A  brother  was 
graduated  here  in   1824. 

He  studied  law,  in  part  with  the  Hon.  Calvin  Goddard 
(Dartmouth  Coll.  1786),  of  Norwich,  and  in  part  with 
Seth  P.  Staples  (Yale  1797),  of  New  Haven,  where  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  June,  1823. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 82 1  7  I 

He  then  settled  in  practice  in  Norwich,  where  he  married, 
on  February  13,  1826,  Alice  Hart,  daughter  of  Calvin  and 
Alice  Cogswell  (Hart)  Goddard,  and  sister  of  George  C. 
Goddard  (Yale  1820). 

His  life  in  Norwich  was  interrupted  by  his  appointment 
as  United  States  District  Attorney  under  President  Jackson, 
which  involved  his  residence  in  Hartford  from  1829  to 
1 83 1.  He  then  returned  to  Norwich,  but  in  1843  removed 
to  Baltimore,  and  thence  to  New  York  City  in  1845. 

At  the  end  of  his  life  he  returned  to  Norwich,  where  he 
died  on  May  11,  1858,  in  his  60th  year. 

His  children  were  two  daughters  and  two  sons ;  of  the 
latter,  the  elder  died  in  infancy,  and  the  younger  was 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1855. 

George  Cowles  was  born  in  New  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
on  March  11,  1798. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Sem- 
inary, where  he  completed  the  course  in  1824.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Litchfield  North  Association  on 
June  8,  1824.  In  1825  and  1826  he  served  as  an  agent  for 
the  American  Board. 

On  January  18,  1826,  he  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist, 
in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  at  the  same  time  that  his  class- 
mate Maltby  was  installed  pastor  there. 

On  September  12,  1827,  he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Second  or  South  Congregational  Church  in  Danvers,  now 
Peabody,  and  on  February  13,  1828,  he  was  married  to 
Elizabeth  Ripley,  daughter  of  John  Adams  (Yale  1795), 
principal  of  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  sister  of  a 
classmate. 

In  1835  his  health  began  to  decline  seriously,  and  he  was 
dismissed  at  his  own  request  from  his  pastorate  in  Septem- 
ber, 1836. 

On  October  7,  1837,  he  and  his  wife  left  New  York  for 
Charleston,  on  the  new  steam-packet  Home,  to  spend  the 


72  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

winter  with  relatives  in  Augusta,  Georgia.  They  lost  their 
lives  on  the  evening  of  the  9th,  by  the  wreck  of  the  vessel 
near  Cape  Hatteras.  Mr.  Cowles  was  in  his  40th  year, 
and  Mrs.  Cowles  in  her  33d.     They  left  no  children. 

Samuel  Hooker  Cowles,  the  youngest  child  of  Isaac 
and  Lucina  (Hooker)  Cowles,  of  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  March  5,  1798. 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  though  suffering  severely  during  the 
last  year  from  an  aggravated  form  of  dyspepsia. 

Meantime  he  had  resolved  to  devote  himself  to  the  edu- 
cation of  free  colored  people,  and  after  returning  home  in 
September,  1824,  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Hartford 
South  Association  in  October.  A  few  days  after  his 
license  he  was  attacked  with  dangerous  bleeding  at  the  lungs, 
and  he  spent  the  next  winter  in  Chapel  Hill,  North  Caro- 
lina, and  the  succeeding  one  in  St.  Augustine,  Florida. 
During  this  time  he  was  able  to  preach  only  two  sermons. 
He  declined  gradually,  and  the  end  came  at  his  father's 
house  in  Farmington  on  February  i,  1827,  in  his  29th  year. 

George  Fowler  Davenport,  the  second  son  of  John 
Davenport,  of  St.  George's,  Bermuda,  was  born  in  1801. 
In  the  matriculation-record  his  middle  name  is  given  as 
Forbes.  At  the  time  of  his  graduation  he  was  intending 
to  study  medicine  in  Philadelphia. 

He  began  a  mercantile  life  as  a  clerk  in  New  York  City, 
and  about  1827  settled  in  business  in  St.  John,  New  Bruns- 
wick. Later  he  returned  to  Bermuda,  and  also  resided  for 
a  time  in  British  Guiana ;  but  died  in  Bermuda,  on  February 
3,  1856,  in  his  55th  year. 

Lucius  Campbell  Duncan,  of  a  Pennsylvania  family, 
was  born  in  Louisiana  in  1801,  and  was  early  left  an 
orphan.  He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Academy  in 
Monson,  Massachusetts. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  73 

He  studied  law  in  New  Orleans,  and  practiced  his  pro- 
fession there  through  life,  maintaining  the  highest  charac- 
ter, and  achieving  both  professional  and  material  success. 

He  married,  in  1831,  Jane  McKenzie,  of  London,  Eng- 
land, who  died  early  with  their  only  child. 

He  married,  secondly,  on  September  6,  1854,  Mary  R. 
Smith,  of  Baltimore,  and  late  in  May,  1855,  was  stricken 
with  apoplexy.  He  recovered  partially,  but  was  again 
stricken  on  July  28,  and  sank  gradually  until  his  death,  in 
New  Orleans,  on  August  9,  at  the  age  of  54. 

Joseph  Goodrich,  the  youngest  child  of  Isaac  and  Eliza- 
beth (Raymond)  Goodrich,  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  July  31,  1795.     A  nephew  was  graduated  in 

1853- 

He  studied  theology  privately,  and  was  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  Hartford  South  Association  in  June,  1822,  and  on 
November  7,  was  married  to  Martha,  third  daughter  of 
Selah  and  Nancy  (Cowles)  Barnes,  of  Southington.  They 
had  already  been  accepted  as  assistant  missionaries  for 
the  Hawaiian  mission  of  the  American  Board,  and  sailed 
on  November  19  for  Hawaii,  where  they  remained  in  that 
service,  being  stationed  at  Hilo,  until  January,  1836.  Mr. 
Goodrich  was  ordained  at  Kailua  on  September  29,  1826. 

He  arrived  at  his  home  in  May,  1836,  and  then  joined  a 
colony  from  Wethersfield  and  the  vicinity,  who  founded  a 
town  of  the  same  name,  in  Henry  County,  northwestern 
Illinois,  where  he  cultivated  a  farm  until  his  death  there,  on 
February  17,  1852,  from  paralysis,  in  his  57th  year. 

His  wife  died  in  1840,  in  her  40th  year,  having  borne 
him  seven  children. 

He  next  married,  in  June,  1841,  Rachel  Curtis,  of  his 
native  town. 

RoswELL  Goodwin,  the  only  child  of  Jeduthun  and 
Eunice  (Merrill)  Goodwin,  of  New  Hartford,  Connecticut, 


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was  born  in  1798.     His  mother  died  at  his  birth,  and  his 
father  when  he  was  about  ten. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Sem- 
inary, but  while  still  connected  with  that  institution  died  of 
consumption,  in  New  Hartford,  on  January  25,  1824,  in  his 
26th  year. 

John  Anthony  Hempsted,  son  of  Captain  John  and 
Nabby  (Graham)  Hempsted,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, in  1798. 

He  studied  theology  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan  Perkins, 
of  West  Hartford,  and  on  March  5,  1823,  was  ordained 
and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
Washington,  Berkshire  County,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
remained  until  March  17,  1826. 

After  this  he  found  temporary  employment  for  sev- 
eral years  in  Connecticut  pulpits,  his  residence  being  in 
Hartford. 

He  married,  on  September  7,  1830,  Sarah  Stoughton,  of 
Bloomfield. 

On  October  16,  1833,  he  was  installed  over  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  West  Hartland,  but  was  dismissed  in 
September,   1835. 

After  this  he  returned  to  Hartford,  and  was  very  usefully 
employed  in  occasional  ministerial  and  kindred  service. 
Thus,  he  supplied  the  Colored  Church  in  Hartford  from 
June,  1837,  to  August,  1838.  He  served  also  for  a  number 
of  years  as  Chaplain  to  the  jail  in  Hartford. 

He  died  in  Hartford  on  one  of  the  last  days  in  Septem- 
ber, 1851,  at  the  age  of  53. 

After  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  he  married,  about  the 
first  of  December,  1834,  Mary,  daughter  of  Deacon  John 
M.  Case,  of  Hartland,  who  died  in  April,  1836,  at  the  age 
of  37 ;  and  thirdly,  in  June,  1837,  Ann,  daughter  of  John 
D.  Bigelow,  of  Marlborough,  Hartford  County. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  75 

Theodore  Hinsdale,  the  eldest  child  of  Josiah  Bissell 
and  Temperance  Hinsdale,  of  Colebrook,  and  afterwards  of 
Winchester,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  December  27,  1800. 
He  was  a  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Theodore  Hinsdale  (Yale 
1762)  and  of  the  Rev.  Timothy  Pitkin  (Yale  1747).  A 
sister  married  Frederick  Whittlesey  (Yale  1818). 

He  remained  at  New  Haven  as  a  student  of  law  with 
Seth  P.  Staples  for  a  year,  and  then  spent  two  years  in 
the  Andover  Theological  Seminary. 

Returning  home,  he  was  married,  on  April  26,  1826,  to 
Jerusha,  daughter  of  Solomon  and  Sarah  (McEwen) 
Rockwell,  of  Winchester,  and  settled  in  mercantile  life  in 
that  town.  In  1827  he  went  into  manufacturing  with  his 
father-in-law,  and  by  his  enterprise  and  sound  judgment 
took  rank  as  an  eminently  useful  citizen. 

As  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  in  1837  he  framed 
the  Joint  Stock  Act  of  Connecticut,  which  introduced  the 
form  of  the  modern  corporation,  and  facilitated  the  devel- 
opment of  all  branches  of  commercial  industry. 

He  died,  from  typhoid  fever,  on  November  27,  1841,  in 
his  41st  year,  leaving  two  daughters  and  a  son. 

His  widow  married,  on  December  10,  1843,  his  classmate, 
John  Boyd,  of  Winchester,  and  died  on  March  11,  1875, 
aged  ^2  years. 

Albert  Judson,  the  second  son  of  Deacon  Benjamin  and 
Esther  (Minor)  Judson,  of  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  September  28,  1798. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  East  Windsor,  and  studied 
theology  in  New  York  City. 

He  was  then  for  about  four  years  engaged  in  New  York 
City  in  missionary  work,  partly  as  an  agent  of  the  Sunday 
School  Union,  receiving  Presbyterian  ordination  in  1825 
or  6. 

He  married,  on  December  3,  1829,  Mary  Amanda,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Hon.  Oliver  and  Sarah  (Rogers)  Burnham,  of 


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Cornwall,  Connecticut,  having  already  removed  to  Philadel- 
phia, where  after  a  further  interval  of  missionary  labor,  he 
was  installed  in  November,  1832,  as  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Southwark. 

He  died  of  consumption  in  Philadelphia,  after  a  pro- 
tracted and  painful  illness,  on  April  4,  1839,  in  his  41st 
year. 

His  widow  died  on  April  25,  1842,  at  the  age  of  38. 
Their  children  were  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

William  Lester,  son  of  Captain  William  and  Elizabeth 
B.  (Burgess)  Lester,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  proba- 
bly born  in  1796.  Archibald  Burgess  (Yale  1814)  and 
Anson  Burgess  (Yale  1818)  were  his  first  cousins.  His 
father  removed  to  Canterbury  just  before  his  graduation. 

He  was  successively  a  teacher  in  Wilton  and  Greenwich, 
and  in  Rye,  New  York.  In  September,  1822,  he  married 
Sarah  Middlebrook,  of  Wilton,  who  died  in  Rye  on  Sep- 
tember 20,  1830,  leaving  a  daughter.  While  living  in  Rye, 
he  was  a  Ruling  Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Soon  after  his  wife's  death  he  took  up  the  business  of 
a  surveyor,  with  his  residence  in  Norwich.  He  published 
in  1833  an  admirable  Map  of  New  London  and  Windham 
Counties. 

He  made  the  first  survey  for  the  railroad  from  Norwich 
to  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  which  was  opened  in  1839, 
and  also  had  charge  of  building  the  New  England  railroad 
from  Putnam  to  Willimantic. 

He  continued  to  be  occupied  as  a  surveyor  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  Woodstock,  where  he  had  resided 
for  some  years,  on  April  27,  1867,  in  his  72d  year. 

He  was  married  a  second  time,  but  outlived  his  wife, 
by  whom  he  had  three  sons. 

Thomas  Person  Little,  a  son  of  William  Person  Little, 
of  Warren  County,  North  Carolina,  and  grandson  of  Wil- 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  77 

Ham  and  ]\Iary  Ann  (Person)  Little,  of  Hertford  County, 
was  born  near  Littleton  in  1800.  His  mother  was  Ann, 
daughter  of  Philemon  Hawkins,  of  Warren  County. 

He  settled  on  a  large  plantation  called  Old  Town,  in 
Maney's  Neck,  Hertford  County,  and  was  a  leading  citizen 
in  all  public  affairs.  He  held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  and  was  at  one  time  presiding  officer  of  the  County 
Court.  He  is  remembered  as  passionately  fond  of  the 
sports  of  deer-  and  fox-hunting. 

He  died  in  1856.     He  was  unmarried. 

William  Budd  McCullough,  from  Asbury,  New  Jer- 
sey, was  born  in  1801,  and  entered  Yale  in  1818. 

He  studied  law,  and  practiced  the  profession  in  his  native 
place  until  1830,  when  he  turned  to  medicine.  In  1824  he 
married  Arabella  S.  Piatt,  of  Cincinnati,  who  died  in  1829, 
leaving  two  children. 

From  1 83 1  to  1834  he  was  a  practicing  physician  in 
Cincinnati. 

In  1834  he  married  Matilda  Moore,  of  Harrison,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Cincinnati,  and  returned  to  Asbury,  where  he 
continued  to  practice  medicine  until  1841.  He  then  settled 
on  a  farm  near  Lawrenceburg,  Indiana,  about  fifteen  miles 
west  of  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  also  employed  as  a 
physician. 

At  a  later  period  he  removed  to  St.  Peter,  Minnesota. 

He  died  in  July,  1869,  at  the  age  of  68. 

John  Richards,  the  only  son  of  Deacon  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Wells)  Richards,  of  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  March  14,  1797.  While  a  clerk  in  a  store  in 
Hartford,  in  1814,  he  became  a  Christian,  and  resolved 
to  enter  College. 

He  spent  the  three  years  next  after  graduation  in  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  Hartford  North  Association  on  June  i,  1824. 


78  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  an  interval  of  service  as  an  agent  of  the  American 
Board,  he  was  ordained  and  installed,  on  November  27, 
1827,  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Woodstock, 
Vermont. 

He  married,  late  in  June,  1828,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Zenas  and  Mary  (Lewis)  Cowles,  of  Farmington,  and 
sister  of  Thomas  Cowles  (Yale  1829). 

He  resigned  his  charge  on  February  11,  1831,  and  dur- 
ing the  next  six  years  was  the  associate  editor  of  the 
Vermont  Chronicle,  a  religious  weekly,  published  at 
Windsor. 

From  1837  to  1840  he  conducted  a  school  in  Windsor. 

In  January,  1841,  he  began  to  supply  statedly  the  church 
connected  with  Dartmouth  College,  in  Hanover,  New 
Hampshire,  over  which  he  was  installed  on  April  2,  1842. 
He  continued  in  that  relation,  highly  esteemed,  until  his 
sudden  death,  in  Hanover,  on  March  29,  1859,  at  the  age 
of  62.     His  wife  survived  him. 

His  children  were  one  son  (Dartmouth  1851)  and  three 
daughters. 

The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  given  him  by 
Dartmouth  in  1845.  He  was  a  comprehensive  scholar,  of 
strong  intellect,  and  absolutely  simple  and  sincere  character. 

Israel  Gurley  Rose,  son  of  John  and  Desire  (Gurley) 
Rose,  of  (South)  Coventry,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  1799. 
His  father  died  in  1803. 

After  leaving  College  he  taught  on  Long  Island,  and 
there  began  the  study  of  theology,  which  he  afterwards 
continued  in  Connecticut. 

On  March  9,  1825,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Westminster 
Society  in  Canterbury,  Connecticut;  and  was  dismissed, 
at  his  own  request,  after  a  stormy  experience,  in  October, 
1831. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  79 

On  April  i8,  1832,  he  was  installed  over  the  First  or 
North  (Congregational)  Parish  in  Wilbraham,  Hampden 
County,  Massachusetts,  where  he  continued  until  January- 
si,  1835. 

His  last  pastorate  was  in  Chesterfield,  Hampshire 
County,  from  November  18,  1835,  until  the  fall  of  1841, 
when  impaired  health  obliged  him  to  give  up  work.  He 
died  there,  after  long  feebleness,  on  February  5,  1842,  at 
the  age  of  43,  and  was  buried  at  his  birthplace. 

He  married,  in  December,  1826,  Percy  B.  Clarke,  of 
Ashford,  Connecticut,  who  survived  him  with  one  child. 

Oliver  Abbot  Shaw,  born  in  Lexington,  Massachusetts, 
on  May  31,  1796,  and  a  resident  of  Boston,  entered  Yale 
from  Harvard  College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

In  the  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  and  then  returned  to  New  Haven  for  the  study  of 
law. 

In  1825  he  went  South,  with  the  intention  of  practicing 
his  profession;  but  he  was  induced  to  settle  as  a  teacher 
in  Frederick  County,  in  northern  Virginia,  where  he 
remained  for  about  six  years. 

He  married,  on  December  27,  1825,  at  Oakley,  in  the 
adjoining  Clarke  County,  Ann  Aylett,  daughter  of  Hum- 
phrey and  Sarah  Walker  (Page)  Brooke,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

He  was  next  for  some  years  a  teacher  in  the  Central 
High  School  in  Philadelphia.  He  also  studied  theology,  and 
was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church 
by  Bishop  H.  U.  Onderdonk  on  February  13,  1839. 

He  was  displaced  from  the  ministry  by  Bishop  Alonzo 
Potter,  on  December  4,  1847,  for  reasons  not  affecting  his 
moral  character. 

He  died  in  Yazoo  City,  Mississippi,  on  April  4,  1855,  in 
his  59th  year. 


8o  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Eli  Smith  was  born  in  Northford,  Connecticut,  on 
September  13,  j8oi,  the  son  of  Eli  and  Polly  (Whitney) 
Smith.  His  father  was  a  farmer  and  a  deacon  in  the 
Congregational  Church. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  Georgia,  and 
then  went  to  Andover,  Massachusetts,  to  study  for  the 
ministry.  He  was  ordained  in  Springfield  on  May  10,  1826, 
and  on  May  23  sailed  for  Malta,  under  appointment  of  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  to 
take  charge  of  the  mission  press. 

In  1827  he  went  to  Beirut  to  study  Arabic,  returned  to 
Malta  in  the  following  year,  and  in  1829  travelled  in  Greece 
with  Dr.  Rufus  Anderson. 

In  1830-31,  with  the  Rev.  H.  G.  O.  Dwight,  he  made  a 
journey  of  exploration  through  Armenia,  Persia  and 
Georgia,  thus  preparing  the  way  for  the  establishment  of 
the  Nestorian  Mission. 

In  1832  he  made  a  short  visit  to  the  United  States  and 
married,  on  July  21,  1833,  Sarah  Lanman  Huntington,  of 
Norwich,  Connecticut,  the  younger  daughter  of  Deacon 
Jabez  Huntington  (Yale  1784). 

In  1833  he  went  to  Beirut,  where  Mrs.  Smith  opened  a 
girls'  school  for  which  was  erected  the  first  building  in  the 
Turkish  Empire  intended  for  the  teaching  of  girls.  Mrs. 
Smith's  death  occurred  on  September  30,  1836,  in  her  35th 
year. 

Two  years  later,  Professor  Edward  Robinson,  of  New 
York,  and  Mr.  Smith  made  a  memorable  exploration  of 
Palestine  and  Sinai  which  is  said  to  have  "opened  the  sec- 
ond great  era  of  our  knowledge  of  the  Promised  Land." 
"By  his  experience  as  an  Oriental  traveller,  his  tact  in  elicit- 
ing information,  and  his  intimate  knowledge  of  Arabic,  Mr. 
Smith  contributed  largely  to  the  accuracy,  variety,  and 
value  of  the  discoveries  in  Biblical  Geography"  made  on 
this  expedition. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  81 

After  this  tour  he  went  to  Leipsic  and  superintended  the 
final  preparations  for  a  new  font  of  Arabic  type.  This  was 
the  culmination  of  an  important  part  of  his  life  work.  He 
had  collected  the  best  models  of  Arabic  calligraphy  from 
Cairo,  Damascus,  Aleppo,  and  Constantinople,  and  had 
spent  many  months  of  intense  application  in  drawing  from 
them  the  diagrams  from  which  the  punches  for  the  matrices 
were  cut.  The  result  was  "the  most  beautiful  font  of 
Arabic  type  the  world  had  ever  seen,"  which  soon  became, 
and  has  since  remained,  the  standard  for  Arabic  print. 

In  1841  Mr.  Smith  was  in  the  United  States,  where  he 
married,  on  March  9,  Maria  Ward  Chapin,  of  Rochester, 
New  York,  daughter  of  Judge  Moses  Chapin  (Yale  1811), 
and  then  returned  to  Beirut.  In  the  following  year 
occurred  the  birth  of  his  first  son,  and  the  death  of  his 
wife  (on  May  27,  at  the  age  of  23). 

The  next  three  years  were  spent  in  preaching,  travelling, 
and  study  of  Semitic  languages. 

In  1845,  with  greatly  impaired  health  he  made  his  last 
visit  to  the  United  States,  where  he  remained  two  years, 
returning  to  Beirut  in  1847,  with  his  third  wife,  Hetty 
Simpkins  Butler,  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  sister  of 
Dr.  John  S.  Butler,  of  Hartford  (Yale  1825). 

In  February,  1848,  Mr.  Smith  began  the  work  of  trans- 
lating the  Bible  into  Arabic,  and  on  this  he  labored  contin- 
uously, until  his  last  illness  obliged  him  to  desist.  For  this 
great  work  he  was  well  prepared.  By  native  endowment 
he  was  a  clear  thinker,  with  excellent  judgment,  of  unusual 
accuracy,  and  capacity  for  patient,  persistent  attention  to 
details.  By  education  he  was  a  linguist  of  wide  attain- 
ments, being  familiar  with  a  number  of  languages,  ancient 
and  modern,  and  especially  with  Arabic,  which  was  to  him 
a  second  vernacular.  His  years  of  labor  as  a  missionary 
preacher  of  the  Gospel,  in  which  he  delighted  above  every- 
thing else,  brought  him  into  intimate  acquaintance  with  the 


82  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

habits  of  thought  and  needs  of  the  people  for  whom  he 
was  now  translating-  the  Word  of  God. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  on  January  ii,  1857,  a  consid- 
erable part  of  the  work  of  translation  was  completed,  but 
only  a  small  part  of  this  had  received  final  correction,  and 
for  this  alone  he  wished  to  be  held  responsible.  The  work 
was  taken  up  and  completed  by  Dr.  C.  V.  A.  Van  Dyck. 

In  1850  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
from  Williams  College. 

His  children  were  four  sons,  the  second  of  whom  died 
in  infancy,  and  two  daughters.  His  eldest  son  was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1865,  and  the  third  and  fourth  sons  at 
Amherst  in  1876  and  1877,  respectively, 

Horatio  Nelson  Spencer,  the  eighth  child  of  Israel 
Selden  and  Temperance  (Brockway)  Spencer,  of  Hadlyme 
Parish,  on  the  borders  of  Lyme  and  Haddam,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  November  22,  1798. 

At  the  time  of  graduation  his  father's  previously  ample 
resources  were  so  reduced  by  business  reverses,  that  the 
son  was  prompted  to  remove  to  Hillsboro,  Jasper  County, 
Georgia,  where  he  taught  for  three  years,  while  also  stud)'- 
ing  law. 

At  the  end  of  this  period  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  practiced  his  profession  in  Hillsboro  until  1828,  when 
he  removed  to  Port  Gibson,  Mississippi. 

In  his  practice  at  Port  Gibson  he  was  remarkably  suc- 
cessful, and  soon  attained  a  high  position  at  the  bar.  He 
thoroughly  identified  himself  with  the  people  of  his  adopted 
State,  and  was  in  hearty  sympathy  with  its  institutions. 

He  contributed  largely  to  the  religious  and  the  material 
development  of  the  community.  For  forty-five  years  he 
was  an  Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Port  Gibson, 
of  which  he  was  the  chief  support.  He  was  the  President 
of  the  Port  Gibson  Bank,  and  for  a  number  of  years  Presi- 
dent of  the  Port  Gibson  &  Grand  Gulf  Railroad  Company, 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 82 1  83 

one  of  the  first  railroads  in  the  State,  in  the  construction 
of  which  he  was  chiefly  instrumental. 

About  1836  he  retired  to  his  country-seat,  Almont,  and 
devoted  himself  mainly  to  that  plantation.  Prior  to  the 
Civil  War  he  owned  several  large  plantations  in  Mississppi 
and  Louisiana.  The  colored  foreman  at  Almont,  after  the 
overseer  had  fled,  held  the  negroes  together,  and  at  the  end 
of  the  war  turned  over  to  Mr.  Spencer  $10,000  in  cash, 
which  he  had  realized  from  the  sale  of  cotton. 

He  died  at  Almont  on  April  18,  1876,  in  his  78th  year. 

He  married,  in  1824,  Theresa,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Sam- 
uel and  Abigail  (Goddard)  Goddard,  of  Norwich,  Vermont, 
who  died  in  Port  Gibson  on  March  21,  1830,  at  the  age 
of  27,  leaving  one  daughter. 

On  April  20,  1832,  he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Marshall,  of  Pine  Ridge,  near  Natchez,  Mississippi,  but  of 
Pennsylvanian  origin.  She  died  at  Almont  on  March  20, 
1854,  in  her  45th  year,  having  borne  ten  children,  of  whom 
four  sons  survived  her.  The  eldest  was  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1857,  and  the  third  is  a  distinguished  otologist. 

Mr.  Spencer  gave  careful  attention  to  the  education  of 
his  children,  and  in  connection  with  a  neighbor  maintained 
a  private  school  under  superior  teachers. 

He  married,  thirdly,  on  January  24,  1856,  Priscilla  Turn- 
bull,  who  survived  him,  dying  on  November  3,  1876. 

Edward  Brooke  Vass,  the  second  son  of  James  Vass, 
a  native  of  Forres,  Scotland,  and  Susannah  (Brooke)  Vass, 
of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  entered  Yale  in  1818. 

He  studied  law  in  Dumfries,  Virginia,  and  while  prac- 
ticing his  profession  in  Fredericksburg  married,  on  Sep- 
tember I,  1824,  Charlotte  J.,  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel 
Colin  Macrae,  then  a  resident  of  New  Haven. 

A  year  or  two  after  his  marriage  he  removed  to  Talla- 
hassee, Florida,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  as  a 
lawyer  and  planter. 


84  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  wife  was  instantly  killed,  on  June  30,  1834,  by  the 
falling  of  a  tree  on  their  house  during  a  violent  tornado. 
She  left  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  died  without  issue. 

In  1835  he  was  again  married,  to  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Hon.  William  Wirt  and  Elizabeth  Washington  (Gamble) 
Wirt. 

He  died  in  Tallahassee  in  1839. 

CLASS  OF    1822 

Elijah  Murdock  Avery,  the  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Anna,  or  Nancy  (Murdock)  Avery,  of  Groton,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  on  March  17,  1798,  and  entered  Yale  in  1819. 

He  became  a  teacher  at  the  South,  but  returned  insane, 
and  died,  unmarried,  probably  in  Groton,  on  November  27, 
1836,  in  his  39th  year. 

Edward  Fort  Barnes,  of  Port  Gibson,  Mississippi,  was 
probably  born  in  1800  or  1801. 

He  became  a  planter  in  Port  Gibson,  and  died  there, 
probably  in  1825. 

Isaac  Bartholomew,  the  youngest  son  of  Timothy  and 
Abigail  (Munson)  Bartholomew,  of  Northford  Society,  in 
North  Branford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May  31,  1797. 
Benjamin  F.  Harrison,  M.D.  (Yale  1836),  was  a  nephew. 

He  was  intending  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but  died  in 
Northford,  of  consumption,  on  December  7,  1822,  in  his 
26th  year. 

George  Thomas  Bowen,  son  of  Colonel  Ephraim  Bowen, 
Junior,  and  Sarah  (Whipple)  Bowen,  of  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  was  born  on  March  19.  1803,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1819.  During  his  Junior  and  Senior  years  in  Col- 
lege he  served  as  Professor  Silliman's  assistant  in  chem- 
istry, in  which  he  showed  great  proficiency. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  l822  85 

After  graduation  he  attended  medical  lectures  in  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1826  received  the 
appointment  of  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Natural  Phi- 
losophy in  the  University  of  Nashville,  Tennessee.  While 
in  this  position,  he  died  there,  of  quick  consumption,  after 
less  than  four  months'  illness,  on  October  25,  1828,  in  his 
26th  year. 

Joseph  Marsh  Brewster,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Lois 
(Marsh)  Brewster,  of  Worthington,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  November  15,  1797,  and  entered  Williams  College 
in  181 7.  After  two  years  there,  he  entered  the  Sophomore 
Class  here. 

He  studied  theology  with  President  Griffin  (Yale  1790), 
of  Williams  College,  and  was  ordained  and  installed  on 
December  29,  1824,  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Peru,  a  town  adjoining  his  native  place. 

His  ministry  there  was  highly  successful,  until  the  inroads 
of  consumption  compelled  his  dismission  on  September  10, 
1833.  His  death  followed,  in  Peru,  on  December  29,  1833, 
in  his  37th  year. 

He  married  in  May,  1825,  Mary  Morgan,  of  Northamp- 
ton, who  died  on  March  5,  1827,  leaving  one  child,  who  was 
graduated  at  Williams  College  in  1845,  but  died  the  same 
year. 

He  married,  secondly,  on  October  2,  1827,  Eliza,  only 
child  of  David  Addison  and  Mary  (Day)  Noble,  of  Wil- 
liamstown,  and  granddaughter  of  Judge  David  Noble 
(Yale  1764).  She  died  in  Williamstown  on  September  9, 
1863,  in  her  71st  year. 

Asa  Butts,  Junior,  son  of  Asa  and  Anne  (Dimock) 
Butts,  of  Canterbury,  Connecticut,  and  grandson  of  Shere- 
biah  and  Deborah  (Knight)  Butts,  of  Canterbury,  was  born 
on  October  8,  1797. 


86  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

On  leaving  College  he  began  the  study  of  law  with  Seth 
P.  Staples  (Yale  1797)  in  New  Haven. 

He  was  obliged  by  the  state  of  his  health  to  suspend  his 
studies,  and  he  died  in  Canterbury,  from  consumption,  on 
March  10,  1824,  in  his  27th  year. 

George  Carrington,  son  of  James  and  Huldah  (Ford) 
Carrington,  was  born  in  Canaan,  Connecticut,  on  June  28, 
1796.  His  residence  was  in  Woodbridge  while  in  College; 
it  had  previously  been  in  Huntington. 

He  studied  theology  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from 
1823  to  1826,  being  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Fairfield  East 
Association  in  the  summer  of  1825. 

He  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  by  the  Fairfield  East 
Consociation  on  October  4,  1826;  and  after  brief  engage- 
ments elsewhere,  began  to  supply  in  October,  1828,  the 
newly  organized  Congregational  Church  in  the  northern 
part  of  Goshen,  over  which  he  was  installed  on  August 
27,  1829. 

He  was  dismissed  from  this  parish  in  September,  1833, 
and  on  February  25,  1835,  was  installed  in  Hadlyme  parish, 
on  the  borders  of  Lyme  and  Haddam,  as  colleague  to  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Vaill  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1778). 

On  June  17,  1835,  he  married  Catharine,  second  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  Frederick  Marsh  (Yale  1805),  of  Winchester. 

Mr.  Vaill  died  in  1838,  and  he  resigned  his  charge  at 
Hadlyme  on  February  22,  1842,  with  the  purpose  of  emi- 
grating to  the  West;  and  in  April,  1843,  he  proceeded  as 
far  as  Peoria,  Illinois.  There  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Rushville,  but  before  his  installation 
had  taken  place,  he  died  in  Rushville,  of  bilious  fever,  on 
October  31,  1843,  in  his  48th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  their  children,  two  sons  and 
a  daughter.  The  elder  son  was  graduated  at  Williams 
College  in  1 86 1. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  l822  87 

Mrs.  Carrington  died  in  West  Winsted  on  February  lo, 
1883,  i"  her  71st  year. 

Walter  Colton,  the  third  in  a  family  of  twelve  children 
of  Deacon  Walter  and  Thankful  (Cobb)  Colton,  of  Rut- 
land, Vermont,  was  born  in  Rutland  on  May  9,  1797.  The 
family  removed  in  his  infancy  to  Georgia,  Vermont,  near 
St.  Albans,  and  in  1814  he  went  to  live  with  an  uncle  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  learn  the  trade  of  cabinet- 
making.  But  on  becoming  a  Christian  he  resolved  to  pre- 
pare for  the  ministry.     A  brother  was  graduated  here  in 

1835- 

On  leaving  Yale  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  where  he  spent  three  years.  He  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Hartford  North  Association  on  June  7,  1825, 
but  as  the  state  of  his  health  (much  undermined  by  dys- 
pepsia) prevented  his  taking  a  parish,  he  became  a  teacher 
of  belles-lettres  in  Captain  Alden  Partridge's  Military 
Academy,  in  Middletown,  Connecticut.  He  also  officiated 
as  chaplain  in  the  Academy,  and  was  therefore  ordained 
as  an  Evangelist  by  the  Hartford  South  Association,  at 
Northington,  now  Avon,  on  June  5,  1827. 

He  left  Middletown  in  1830  for  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  to  assume  the  editorship  of  the  American  Specta- 
tor and  Washington  City  Chronicle,  a  newspaper  whose 
mission  it  was  to  oppose  the  Government  policy  towards 
the  Georgia  Indians. 

The  consummation  of  this  policy  put  a  speedy  end  to 
his  occupation,  but  meantime  he  had  attracted  President 
Jackson's  favorable  attention  as  a  preacher;  which  led  to 
his  appointment,  in  November,  1830,  to  a  chaplaincy  in  the 
Navy,  which  he  retained  through  life. 

The  incidents  of  his  various  cruises  furnished  the  material 
for  four  or  five  popular  works  from  his  pen,  descriptive  of 
life  and  manners ;  and  during  the  intervals  of  shore-duty  he 


88  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

was  repeatedly  induced  to  undertake  editorial  labor:  thus, 
in  1837,  he  edited  for  several  months  the  Colonisation  Her- 
ald, in  Washington;  in  1838  and  1841-42  the  North  Ameri- 
can (Whig-)  newspaper,  in  Philadelphia;  in  1848-9  the 
Californian,  in  Monterey.  An  interesting  experience  in 
1846-48  was  his  service  (at  first  by  appointment  of  the 
American  military  authorities,  and  later  by  popular  election) 
as  Alcalde  or  chief  civil  magistrate  of  the  city  of  Monterey 
and  the  surrounding  jurisdiction,  in  the  new  government  of 
California. 

He  had  married,  in  August,  1844,  Cornelia  Baldwin, 
daughter  of  Owen  and  Mary  R.  (Baldwin)  Colton.  of  Phil- 
adelphia; and  after  his  exhausting  labors  in  California  he 
returned  to  Philadelphia,  in  the  early  summer  of  1849,  with 
seriously  impaired  health.  A  year  later  he  was  attacked 
with  inflammation  of  the  liver,  and  after  five  months  of 
acute  suffering  he  died  in  Philadelphia,  on  January  22,  1851, 
in  his  54th  year. 

His  only  child  was  graduated  at  Columbia  College  in 
1868.  His  widow  married,  on  October  11,  1854,  Simeon  B. 
Chittenden,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Sherman  Croswell,  the  eldest  surviving  son  of  Harry 
and  Susan  (Sherman)  Croswell,  of  Hudson,  New  York,  was 
bom  on  November  10,  1802.  At  the  time  of  his  birth  his 
father  was  the  editor  of  the  Balance,  a  prominent  Federalist 
paper  in  Hudson.  In  181 2  he  conformed  to  the  Episcopal 
Church,  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  in  18 14,  and  in  Jan- 
uary, 181 5,  became  the  rector  of  Trinity  Church  in  New 
Haven,  where  he  spent  a  long  life. 

The  son,  after  a  few  months  of  private  teaching,  studied 
law  with  the  Hon.  Nathan  Smith  in  New  Haven,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1826. 

He  practiced  his  profession  here,  until  his  removal,  in 
October,  1831,  to  Albany.  After  less  responsible  employ- 
ment,  he  became   associated   in   July,    1834.   with   his   first 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    l822  89 

cousin,  Edwin  Croswell  (born  1797),  as  editor  and  proprie- 
tor of  the  Albany  Argus,  an  influential  Democratic  news- 
paper. Besides  his  other  editorial  labors,  he  was  an 
extremely  efficient  reporter  of  legislative  proceedings. 

He  married,  on  August  14,  1839,  Delia,  daughter  of  John 
Adams,  of  Catskill,  and  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Edwin  Croswell, 
who  died,  after  long  illness,  on  October  27,  1849,  ^t  the 
age  of  39. 

On  January  i,  1855,  he  retired  from  the  Argus,  though 
continuing  for  two  years  longer  to  report  the  proceedings 
of  the  Assembly. 

His  health  had  long  been  very  delicate,  owing  to  the 
progress  of  consumption,  and  in  1857  he  returned  to  New 
Haven,  where  he  died,  after  protracted  illness,  on  March 
4,  1859,  in  his  57th  year.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkably 
amiable  character. 

His  only  child,  a  son,  died  unmarried,  in  early  manhood. 

William  Croswell,  the  next  younger  brother  of  the 
preceding,  Avas  born  in  Hudson,  New  York,  on  November 
7,  1804. 

He  taught  a  select  school,  with  his  brother,  for  a  few 
months  after  graduation  in  New  Haven ;  and  then,  being 
still  very  young,  spent  nearly  four  years  in  desultory  read- 
ing, in  short  tours,  and  in  repeated  attempts  to  decide  on  a 
profession. 

At  length,  in  October,  1826,  he  entered  the  General  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  New  York.  He  had  already  shown 
much  promise  as  a  writer,  and  early  in  1827,  partly  on 
account  of  impaired  health,  he  was  induced  to  remove  to 
Hartford,  and,  while  still  pursuing  his  studies,  to  act  as 
assistant  editor  of  a  new  religious  weekly,  the  Episcopal 
Watchman.  These  duties  fully  occupied  his  time,  until  his 
admission  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Brownell  in  New- 
Haven,  on  January  25,  1829. 


go  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

On  June  24,  1829,  he  was  instituted  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Boston,  and  on  the  same  day  was  ordained  Priest 
by  Bishop  Griswold. 

After  eleven  years  of  quiet,  effective  service,  he  resigned 
his  charge,  in  June,  1840,  to  accept  a  call  to  the  rectorship 
of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Auburn,  New  York,  where  he  began 
his  work  in  August.  On  October  i  he  was  married  to 
Amanda,  daughter  of  Silas  P.  and  Mary  (Adams)  Tarbell, 
of  Boston. 

The  climate  of  Auburn  proved  trying  to  his  own  health 
and  to  that  of  his  family ;  so  that  in  September,  1844,  he 
was  led  to  resign  his  cure,  in  view  of  an  invitation  to  return 
to  Boston,  to  become  the  first  Rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Advent,  a  new  enterprise  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the 
city,  with  free  sittings,  designed  to  reach  the  poor,  which 
began  its  services  in  December.  Here  he  remained  through 
life,  greatly  admired  and  beloved,  though  at  variance  with 
his  Bishop,  on  account  of  his  advanced  practices.  The  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  on  him 
by  Trinity  College  in  1846. 

After  a  long  struggle  with  ill  health,  he  died  very  sud- 
denly, from  the  rupture  of  a  blood-vessel  of  the  brain,  just 
at  the  close  of  a  service  in  his  church,  on  November  9,  1851, 
at  the  age  of  47. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  daughter,  another  hav- 
ing died  in  infancy.     Mrs.  Croswell  died  in  1880. 

Dr.  Croswell  was  a  graceful  writer,  and  his  hymns  and 
other  poems  are  highly  esteemed.  His  father  published  in 
1853  an  interesting  Memoir  of  his  life,  including  his  poetical 
writings ;  and  another  collection  of  his  poems  was  edited 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Coxe  in  1861. 

Sutherland  Douglas,  the  eldest  child  of  Alanson  and 
Ann  (Sutherland)  Douglas,  of  Lansingburg,  New  York, 
was  born  on  October  25,  1804.  The  family  removed  to 
Troy,  in  1813. 


YALE  COLLEGE^  CLASS  OF  1 822  9 1 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  for  general  graduate  study 
until  April,  1823,  and  in  the  ensuing  fall  entered  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  spent  one  year; 
he  afterward  completed  the  course  in  the  General  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  New  York  City,  in  the  Class  of  1826. 

He  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Griswold 
on  May  17,  1826,  and  on  December  10,  1827,  married  Har- 
riet L.,  daughter  of  Seth  P.  Staples  (Yale  1797),  of  New 
York  City,  and  formerly  of  New  Haven.  Meantime  he 
officiated  temporarily  in  St.  John's  Church,  Georgetown, 
District  of  Columbia;  and  in  September,  1828,  became 
Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  in  Rochester,  New  York.  He 
was  advanced  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Hobart  on 
November  23,  1828. 

He  gave  up  his  charge  in  infirm  health  in  August,  1829, 
and  next  took  duty  in  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  for  a  brief 
interval.  While  considering  a  call  to  Fredericktown, 
Maryland,  a  more  serious  failure  of  health  obliged  him  to 
sail  for  Europe,  in  June,  1830.  He  remained  there  until  his 
death,  in  London,  from  a  fever,  on  May  6,  183 1,  in  his 
27th  year. 

His  only  child,  a  son,  died  in  infancy. 

His  widow  married,  on  September  3,  1835,  the  Right  Rev. 
Benjamin  Bosworth  Smith  (Brown  Univ.  1816),  Bishop  of 
Kentucky,  and  died  in  New  York  City  on  November  22, 
1878. 

His  name  is  perpetuated  in  the  Douglas  Fellowship, 
founded  by  his  sister,  Mrs.  Samuel  Miller,  as  a  memorial  of 
her  two  brothers  who  were  graduates  of  Yale,  in  the 
Classes  of  1822  and  1828,  respectively. 

Andrew  Murdock  Fanning,  son  of  Thomas  and  Lucy 
(Ledyard)  Fanning,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  February  20,  1804. 

He  spent  some  time  at  the  South,  and  was  for  a  short 
time  a  druggist  in  New  York.     He  was  lost  at  sea  in  1829. 


92  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Nathaniel  Frederick  Felder  was  a  son  of  Judge  Sam- 
uel and  Mary  (Myers)  Felder,  of  Orangeburg  District, 
South  Carolina.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1804, 
and  a  nephew  in  1844. 

He  returned  home  after  graduation  and  studied  law, 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Columbia  in  1823.  His  life 
was  spent  on  his  plantation  near  Orangeburg.  The  date  of 
his  death  has  not  been  reported.     He  was  never  married. 

Joseph  Reed  Fowler,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  Andrew 
Fowler  (Yale  1783),  was  born  in  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey, 
on  May  3,  1799.  His  father  removed  to  Charleston,  Soutii 
Carolina,  in  1807. 

He  returned  home  after  graduation,  and  had  begun  his 
studies  for  the  Episcopal  ministry  when  he  met  his  death  by 
drowning  in  Goose  Creek,  Berkeley  County,  some  twenty 
miles  north  of  Charleston,  on  January  20,  1823,  in  his  24th 
year.     He  is  buried  at  Biggin  Church,  St.  John's  Parish. 

Francis  Griffin,  the  eldest  child  of  George  Griffin  (Yale 
1797),  of  Wilkes-Bar  re,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 26,  1802.  The  family  removed,  in  1806,  to  New  York 
City,  where  his  father  became  an  eminent  lawyer. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  in  1825  to  the  bar  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  his 
death,  on  January  12,  1852,  in  his  50th  year. 

He  married,  on  November  27,  1829,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Sands,  a  New  York  banker,  and  Marie  Therese 
(Kamflin)  Sands,  who  survived  him. 

Their  children  were  three  daughters  and  two  sons.  One 
daughter  married  the  distinguished  engineer,  General 
Egbert  L.  Viele. 

Henry  Cyprian  Hart,  the  younger  son  of  Cyprian  and 
Lucy  (Hooker)  Hart,  of  Kensington  Parish,  in  Berlin, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  30,  1801.  His  father 
died  in  March,  1806. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 822  93 

After  attending  two  courses  of  lectures  in  the  Yale  Medi- 
cal School,  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1826,  and 
began  practice  in  his  native  parish ;  but  died  there,  unmar- 
ried, on  March  28,  1831,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  high  promise. 

John  Milton  Holley,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Milton  and 
Sally  (Porter)  Holley,  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  November  10,  1803.  A  brother  was  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut in  1857-58. 

He  studied  law  with  General  Joseph  Kirkland  (Yale 
1790),  of  Utica,  and  settled  in  Lyons,  Wayne  County,  New 
York,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1825. 

He  married,  on  May  30,  1827,  Mary,  daughter  of  General 
Kirkland. 

He  twice  filled  the  office  of  District  Attorney  of  Wayne 
County,  for  four  years  from  February,  1831,  and  for  three 
years  from  October,  1842.  In  1838  and  1841  he  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Legislature.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Thirtieth  Congress,  and  took  his  seat  in  December,  1847. 
On  account  of  a  severe  attack  of  apoplexy,  he  was  soon 
obliged  to  go  South,  and  on  his  return  from  St.  Augustine 
he  died  suddenly  in  Jacksonville,  Florida,  from  hemorrhage 
of  the  lungs,  on  March  8,  1848,  in  his  45th  year. 

His  children  were  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom 
only  two  daughters  and  a  son  (Hamilton  Coll.  1866)  sur- 
vived him. 

Thomas  Earl  Ives,  third  son  of  General  Thomas  Ives 
(Yale  1777),  of  Great  Harrington,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
on  September  30,  1802,  and  entered  Yale  in  1819. 

He  studied  law  in  Northampton,  and  also  in  New  York 
City ;  and  after  temporary  residence  in  Mobile,  and  in  Iber- 
ville, Louisiana,  he  settled  about  1830  in  New  Orleans, 
where  he  engaged  successfully  in  his  profession. 


94  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

He  married,  about  1839,  Jessie  Amanda  Vaughn,  of 
Plaquemine,  Louisiana,  who  died  on  August  19,  1840,  at  the 
age  of  19,  leaving  no  issue. 

He  died  on  November  30,  1843,  '^^  ^lis  42d  year. 

William  Lathrop,  the  only  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah 
(Bill)  Lathrop,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  June 
I,  1801.     His  youngest  sister  married  his  classmate  Ripley. 

He  prepared  himself  for  the  law,  but  died  in  Norwich,  on 
September  13,  1825,  in  his  25th  year. 

He  is  said  (but  this  appears  doubtful)  to  have  married 
Jerusha  Gilchrist. 

Arthur  Alexander  Morson,  the  second  son  of  the  Hon. 
Alexander  and  Anne  Casson  (Alexander)  Morson,  of  Fal- 
mouth, Stafford  County,  Virginia,  and  grandson  of  Arthur 
Morson,  an  immigrant  from  Greenock,  Scotland,  was  born 
on  January  23,  1804,  and  entered  Yale  in  1819. 

He  practiced  law  in  Fredericksburg,  and  later  in  Rich- 
mond, with  eminent  success. 

He  married,  on  May  8,  1833,  Maria  Martin,  third  daugh- 
ter of  the  Hon.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Pickett)  Scott,  of 
Fauquier  County,  by  whom  he  had  eight  daughters  and 
four  sons. 

He  died  on  January  13,  1864,  at  the  age  of  60.  His  wife 
survived  him. 

Eli  Reed,  son  of  Daniel  Reed,  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut, 
and  grandson  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Reed,  of  Salisbury, 
was  born  on  October  16,  1799.  His  mother  was  Chloe, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Anna  Chapin,  of  Salisbury. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  Medical  School  in  Woodstock, 
Vermont,  which  was  affiliated  with  Middlebury  College, 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1826. 

He  died  in  Salisbury  on  August  21,  1827,  in  his  28th  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  l822  95 

Walter  Reynolds,  son  of  Dr.  Israel  and  Deborah  (Dorr) 
Reynolds,  of  North  East,  now  Pine  Plains,  Duchess  County, 
New  York,  was  born  in  February,  1801,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1820. 

He  studied  law  in  Albany,  and  began  practice  there;  but 
returned,  perhaps  about  1830,  to  Pine  Plains,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  his  death,  in  the  spring  of  1844,  in  his  44th  year. 

He  married,  in  May,  1839,  Julia  W.  Husted,  of  Pine 
Plains.  A  son  and  a  daughter  survived  him.  Mrs.  Rey- 
nolds next  married  G.  H.  Duzebury,  of  Pine  Plains. 

John  Riley  Richmond,  the  eldest  child  of  Dr.  David 
and  Lydia  (Riley)  Richmond,  of  Saugatuck,  that  part  of 
Fairfield  which  is  now  Westport,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
January  2,  1802.  A  sister  married  George  Blackman,  M.D. 
(hon.  Yale  1845). 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island. 

In  1829  or  1830  he  went  South,  on  account  of  failing 
health,  and  he  died  in  Apalachicola,  Florida,  on  November 
10,  1830,  in  his  29th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

George  Burbank  Ripley,  the  second  son  of  Dr.  Dwight 
and  Eliza  (Coit)  Ripley,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  March  13,  1801. 

He  studied  law,  but  did  not  enter  into  practice.  He  mar- 
ried, on  October  19,  1825,  Hannah  Gardner,  youngest 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Bill)  Lathrop,  of  Nor- 
wich, and  the  sister  of  a  classmate. 

He  spent  his  life  in  Norwich,  mainly  occupied  with  his 
farm.  For  three  years,  1853-56,  he  filled  the  office  of  Judge 
of  Probate.  After  a  happy  and  useful  career,  followed  by 
more  than  a  year  of  declining  health,  he  died  in  Norwich,  on 
July  9,  1858,  in  his  58th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  their  children,  four  sons 
and  three  daughters.  The  youngest  son  was  graduated  at 
Yale  in  1862. 


96  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

William  Rockwell,  son  of  Samuel  Rockwell,  M.D. 
(Yale  1815,  honorary),  and  Hannah  (Reed)  Rockwell,  of 
Sharon,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  September  20,  1803. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  also  (1823-24)  with  Seth 
P.  Staples  (Yale  1797)  in  New  Haven;  and  in  1825  began 
practice  in  Sharon.  About  1827  he  removed  to  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  where  he  continued  at  the  bar  for  twenty-five 
years. 

From  1833  to  1839  he  was  District  Attorney  for  Kings 
County.  In  June,  1847,  he  was  reported  to  be  elected  Judge 
of  the  County  Court ;  but  the  election  was  contested,  and 
his  opponent  was  seated.  In  November,  1853,  he  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  and  held 
office  until  his  death. 

In  1852  he  removed  his  residence  to  Fort  Hamilton,  in 
the  suburbs  of  Brooklyn,  where  he  died,  of  yellow  fever, 
after  three  days'  illness,  on  July  26,  1856,  in  his  53d  year. 

He  married,  on  April  7,  1840,  Susan  L.,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Captain  Christopher  Prince,  of  Brooklyn,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children.  Two  sons  were  graduated 
at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  in  1873  and  1874, 
respectively. 

Mrs.  Rockwell  next  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  William  P. 
Strickland,  and  died  on  October  10,  1878. 

Albert  Russell  entered  Yale  in  1819  from  Huntsville, 
Alabama. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  practiced  his  profession  in 
Huntsville,  where  he  died  on  July  14,  1844,  aged  45  years. 

He  left  several  children. 

George  [D.]  Sheaffe  entered  Yale  in  1819  from 
Philadelphia. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Philadelphia,  and  died  in  1836. 
He  was  married. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    1 822  97 

William  John  Sheaffe  entered  Yale  from  Philadelphia 
in  1819. 

He  became  the  agent  of  a  manufacturing  company  in 
New  Jersey,  and  died  in  1839,  leaving  three  children. 

William  Sheldon,  son  of  Dr.  Daniel  and  Huldah 
(Stone)  Sheldon,  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  and  grandson 
of  Captain  Daniel  Sheldon  (Yale  1747),  was  born  on  April 
5,  1802. 

He  attended  lectures  in  the  Litchfield  Law  School,  but 
before  beginning  practice  went  to  Europe  in  1824  to  assist 
his  two  older  brothers  in  their  mercantile  business.  While 
thus  engaged,  he  was  attacked  with  bleeding  at  the  lungs, 
which  ended  in  consumption,  from  which  he  died,  in  Paris, 
on  May  6,  1826,  in  his  25th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Edward  Gardiner  Thoaipson,  the  youngest  son  of 
Abraham  Gardiner  Thompson,  a  merchant  of  New  York 
City,  and  Rachael  (Rogers)  Thompson,  was  born  on  Sep- 
tember 27,  1802. 

He  became  a  merchant  and  auctioneer  in  New  York, 
where  he  died  on  July  23,  1835,  in  his  33d  year. 

He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Warren  Kellogg 
(Yale  1803),  of  Flatbush,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and 
a  daughter. 

Isaac  Henry  Townsend,  fourth  son  of  Isaac  and  Rhoda 
(Atwater)  Townsend,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on  April 
25,  1803.  A  nephew  was  graduated  at  the  Yale  Medical 
School  in  1858. 

He  studied  law  for  two  years  in  the  Yale  Law  School, 
and  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  of  this  county,  where  his 
ability  and  industry  soon  gained  him  a  high  rank.  In  par- 
ticular, he  was  extensively  employed  in  the  settlement  of 
estates,  and  in  the  discharge  of  numerous  private  trusts. 
In  1834  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  and  in 
1835  he  visited  Europe. 


98  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  1842  he  became  an  associate  of  Judge  Samuel  J. 
Hitchcock  (Yale  1809)  in  the  conduct  of  the  Yale  Law 
School,  for  which  his  uncommon  legal  learning  eminently 
fitted  him.  At  the  reorganization  of  the  School  in  1846,  he 
was  elected  one  of  the  Professors  of  Law ;  but  soon  after 
his  health,  both  of  body  and  mind,  rapidly  gave  way,  after 
a  severe  febrile  attack,  from  the  secondary  effects  of  which 
he  never  recovered,  and  after  fifteen  months  of  severe  suf- 
fering, he  died  in  New  Haven  of  apoplexy,  on  January  11, 
1847,  in  his  44th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

In  1843  he  gave  to  the  College  one  thousand  dollars,  on 
condition  that  the  income  be  annually  distributed  in  five 
premiums  to  members  of  the  Senior  Class  for  the  best 
specimens  of  English  composition. 

Isaac  Webb,  the  third  son  of  Reynold  and  Catharine 
(Parmele)  Webb,  of  Chester,  then  part  of  Saybrook,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  January  15,  1798,  and  entered  Col- 
lege in  1819,  in  which  year  a  brother  was  graduated  at  the 
Yale  Medical  School. 

During  the  year  1823-24  he  was  the  Principal  of  Nichols 
Academy  in  Dudley,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts,  and 
at  the  same  time  pursued  law  studies  with  Thomas  Pope. 
During  the  next  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Law 
School ;  and  was  then  for  two  years  a  Tutor  in  the  College. 

In  1827  he  opened  a  law  office  in  Middletown,  and  on  June 
28,  1828,  he  married  Mary  Trumbull,  daughter  of  John 
McClellan  (Yale  1785),  of  Woodstock. 

In  1831  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  with  the  intention  of 
settling  there  as  a  lawyer ;  but  six  months  later  he  returned 
to  Middletown,  and  opened  a  family  school  for  boys,  limited 
to  twenty  in  number,  which  he  conducted  successfully  and 
happily  for  about  nine  years. 

His  wife  died  on  August  7,  1836;  their  two  children  died 
in  infancy. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 822  99 

In  1840  he  went  to  Europe,  and  for  nineteen  months 
traveled  extensively,  with  much  enjoyment.  But  finally, 
having  contracted  fever  and  ague  in  its  worst  form,  while 
on  the  Danube,  his  health  gave  way,  and  he  returned  in 
March,  1842,  much  depressed  and  a  great  sufferer. 

He  married  Sarah  Isabella  McClellan,  sister  of  his  former 
wife,  on  May  19,  1842. 

On  September  29,  1842,  he  took  passage  from  Middle- 
town  on  the  steamboat  Kosciusko  for  New  York,  and  the 
same  night,  while  a  victim  of  temporary  derangement,  he 
leaped  into  the  Sound,  and  his  body  was  found  on  the  beach 
near  Clinton. 

His  widow  married,  on  September  17,  185 1,  Professor 
Benjamin  Silliman  (Yale  1796),  and  died  in  New  Haven 
on  April  23,  1875,  aged  68  years. 

Frederick  Whittlesey,  third  son  of  Roger  Whittlesey 
(Yale  1787),  and  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Smalley 
(Yale  1756),  was  born  in  Southington,  Connecticut,  on 
December  13,  1801. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Connecticut,  and  continued 
it  with  Elisha  Whittlesey  in  Canfield,  Ohio. 

In  1827  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Elyria, 
Lorain  County,  and  on  September  9,  1830,  he  married  Eliza, 
daughter  of  Jabez  and  Mary  (Robbins)  Burrall,  of  Suffield, 
Portage  County. 

He  was  for  a  short  time  editor  of  the  Ohio  Atlas,  the 
Whig  organ  of  Lorain  County.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
lower  House  of  the  Legislature  in  1832,  and  of  the  Senate 
in  1833  and  1834. 

In  1834  he  removed  to  Cleveland,  where  he  spent  the 
last  twenty  years  of  his  life.  He  was  for  two  years  (1836- 
38)  employed  in  newspaper  work,  the  principal  editor  of  the 
Cleveland  Herald. 

He  was  an  Associate  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
for  Cuyahoga  County  for  three  years  from  January,  1838. 


lOO  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  leaving  the  bench,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the 
same  Court,  and  served  efficiently  for  the  term  of  seven 
years,  though  from  1840  a  victim  of  paralysis. 

He  died  in  Cleveland  on  November  13,  1854,  in  his  53d 
year. 

His  wife  survived  him.  Their  children  were  five  daugh- 
ters and  three  sons ;  one  daughter  married  the  Rev.  Elias  B. 
Hillard  (Yale  1848). 

William  Webb  Wilkins,  son  of  William  Wyche  and 
Elizabeth  J.  (Rains)  Wilkins,  of  Greenesville  County,  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  on  May  30,  1803.  By  the  time  he  entered 
Yale,  in  18 19,  his  father  had  removed  across  the  border  to 
Northampton  County,  North  Carolina.  Two  brothers  were 
graduated  here,  in  1817  and  1820  respectively. 

He  studied  medicine,  completing  his  education  in  Paris, 
and  practicing  for  a  short  time  in  New  Orleans  and  in  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  before  his  permanent  settlement  in  North- 
ampton County,  North  Carolina.  He  married,  in  1829, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Peter  1.  Beasley,  who  for  many  years 
represented  Brunswick  County,  Virginia,  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature. She  died,  after  bearing  one  son  and  one  daughter; 
and  he  next  married  Louisa  G.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  and 
Frances  (Stuart)  Lewis,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter. 

To  please  his  second  wife  he  bought  a  residence  in  Law- 
renceville,  Brunswick  County,  Virginia,  where  he  died  on 
January  26,  1857,  in  his  54th  year. 

John  Worth ington  Williams,  the  second  and  only 
surviving  son  of  John  Williams  (Yale  1781),  of  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  and  grandson  of  Colonel  John  Worthing- 
ton  (Yale  1740),  was  born  on  November  29,  1803. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law 
in  Philadelphia  with  Charles  Chauncey  (Yale  1792),  and 
on  admission  to  the  bar  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion. The  law  was  not,  however,  in  accordance  with  his 
tastes,  and  after  a  few  years  he  devoted  himself  to  literature. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  lOI 

He  had  already  attained  considerable  reputation  as  a 
writer,  especially  by  contributions  to  the  American  Quar- 
terly Revieiv,  and  early  in  1836  he  became  the  editor-in-chief 
of  the  National  Gazette  and  Literary  Register,  a  leading 
daily  newspaper  of  Philadelphia,  as  well  as  of  the  Review 
just  mentioned. 

The  results  were  brilliant,  from  a  literary  point  of  view, 
but  the  labor  involved  broke  down  his  health,  and  he  died, 
from  consumption,  in  Philadelphia,  on  August  29,  1837,  in 
his  34th  year. 

He  married,  on  April  26,  1836,  Anne,  daughter  of 
Michael  and  Catharine  (Caldwell)  Keppele,  of  Philadelphia, 
who  died  on  October  16,  1853,  in  her  46th  year.  Their 
only  child  was  graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  1856. 

Guilford  Dudley  Young,  a  son  of  David  Young  (Yale 
1798),  of  Windham,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  February  23, 
1802. 

He  became  a  lawyer,  and  died  in  Meadville,  Pennsylvania, 
in  October,  1825,  in  his  24th  year. 


CLASS  OF    1823 

Bela  Allen  entered  College  as  a  Junior  from  Whites- 
town,  Oneida  County,  New  York,  where  he  was  born  in 
1802. 

His  later  residence  was  in  Walesville,  near  Oriskany,  in 
Whitestow^n  township. 

He  married  Sarah  B.  Hovey,  who  died  on  September  22, 
1867,  aged  54^  years.  A  son  (Hamilton  Coll.  1869)  and 
a  daughter  survived  her.  After  her  death  Mr.  Allen  went 
to  Cambridge,  Dane  County,  Wisconsin,  to  live  with  his 
children ;  but  while  on  a  visit  to  his  former  home  died  there, 
on  March  28,  1870,  at  the  age  of  68. 


I02  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Talcott  Bates  (originally  Ira  Talcott  Bates),  a  son 
of  Daniel  and  Anne  Bates,  of  Durham,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Durham  on  July  15,  1802. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  the  fall  of  1824, 
and  remained  until  1827. 

On  January  10,  1827,  he  married  Betsey  Diana,  eldest 
daughter  of  Colonel  Benjamin  and  Betsey  (Chittenden) 
Baldwin,  of  North  Guilford. 

He  was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  in  Woodbury  on 
August  26,  1829;  and  after  over-exertion  during  revival 
labors,  he  undertook  without  sufficient  rest  the  pastorate  of 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in  Manlius,  Onondaga 
County,  New  York,  where  he  was  installed  on  July  13,  1831. 
Consumption  set  in,  and  he  was  obliged  to  resign  his  post 
on  April  14,  1832.  Over  fifty  persons  had  been  added  to 
the  membership  of  the  church  on  profession  of  their  faith 
during  his  brief  pastorate. 

He  returned  to  Durham,  and  died  there  on  October  23, 
in  his  31st  year. 

He  had  two  daughters. 

His  widow  married  Silas  Williams,  of  Manlius,  in  May, 
1834,  and  died  on  July  8,  1853,  in  her  48th  year. 

Edwin  Brewer,  the  eldest  son  of  Eliab  Brewer  (Yale 
1793),  of  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  that  part  of 
Tyringham  which  is  now  Monterey,  on  October  16,  1794. 
His  father  died,  poor,  in  1804,  and  this  son  by  his  own 
efforts  had  attained  an  editorial  position  on  a  country  news- 
paper, when  he  indulged  his  aspirations  for  a  higher  edu- 
cation. His  preparation  was  completed  in  New  Haven, 
under  his  brother  (Yale  1821). 

Soon  after  graduation  he  accepted  an  invitation  to  edit 
a  newspaper  in  Fayetteville,  North  Carolina,  which  advo- 
cated (1824)  the  election  of  John  Quincy  Adams  to 
the  Presidency.     He  had  not  long  resided  there  before  he 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  103 

was  attacked  by  a  fever,  from  the  effects  of  which,  both  on 
body  and  mind,  he  never  fully  recovered. 

Returning  to  his  native  place,  where  he  continued  to 
reside,  with  brief  exceptions,  till  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
occupied  himself  with  light  bodily  and  mental  labor.  He 
composed  readily,  occasionally  furnishing  a  short  article  for 
the  press,  and  leaving  a  large  mass  of  memoranda  on  the 
subjects  which  had  interested  him,  especially  on  popular 
education. 

For  the  last  two  or  three  years  of  his  life  he  was  a  great 
invalid,  suffering  from  dropsy  and  other  disorders.  He 
died,  unmarried,  in  Monterey,  on  July  9,  1859,  in  his  65th 
year. 

Anthony  Wayne  Butler  was  a  native  of  Adams 
County,  Mississippi. 

He  died  in  September,  1824,  at  the  age  of  26. 

William  Douglass  Cairns,  the  son  of  William  Cairns, 
a  New  York  merchant,  who  also  had  a  country  home  in 
Stratford,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Stratford  on  August 
4,  1803.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth,  third  daughter  of 
Judge  Robert  Walker  (Yale  1765),  of  Stratford. 

While  in  College  he  resolved  to  study  for  the  ministry, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1823  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary;  but  a  brief  experience  led  him  to  finish  his 
training  under  Episcopal  direction,  and  he  was  admitted  to 
Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Moore  in  Richmond,  Virginia, 
on  May  22,  1825. 

For  about  four  years  he  labored  in  the  Virginia  diocese, 
at  Gloucester  and  elsewhere,  and  then  became  Rector  of 
St.  James's  Church,  Wilmington,  North  Carolina.  Thence 
he  went  in  1833  to  Christ  Church,  Hudson,  New  York;  but 
returned  in  1835  to  North  Carolina  for  general  missionary 
service. 


I04  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  1836  he  assumed  the  rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  Church 
in  Edenton,  whence  he  removed  in  1837  to  Trinity  Church, 
Columbus,  Georgia,  which  was  then  in  a  very  low  condition. 
Under  his  care  the  church  attained  great  prosperity,  and  he 
remained  with  it  until  the  end.  His  health  failed  seriously, 
early  in  1850,  and  he  went  on  a  leave  of  absence  to  Somer- 
ville,  Alabama,  where  he  died  on  May  8,  in  his  47th  year. 

John  Wurts  Cloud,  son  of  Adam  and  Mary  Cloud,  of 
Jefferson  County,  Mississippi,  entered  College  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  Sophomore  year  from  the  Episcopal  Academy  in 
Cheshire. 

He  studied  theology,  and  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders 
by  Bishop  Brownell  in  Hartford  on  January  4,  1826. 

He  then  returned  to  Mississippi,  but  in  December,  1828, 
was  stationed  at  Onondaga  Hill,  New  York,  as  missionary 
for  the  adjacent  region.  Bishop  Hobart  ordained  him  to 
the  Priesthood,  at  Onondaga  Hill,  on  September  11,  1829, 
but  he  left  there  a  few  months  later. 

He  seems  soon  to  have  settled  in  his  native  county,  where 
he  is  supposed  to  have  passed  his  life,  and  to  have  died  in 
1851. 

Oliver  Coles,  Junior,  was  a  son  of  Oliver  Coles,  a 
wealthy  gentleman  who  married  Margaret  Woodhull 
Underbill  in  February,  1804,  and  removed  from  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island,  to  New  Haven  in  18 18.  He  was  a  prominent 
layman  in  Trinity  (Episcopal)  Church.  Mrs.  Coles  died  in 
New  Haven  in  October,  1820,  and  was  buried  at  Dosoris, 
in  Oyster  Bay. 

In  1824  or  5  the  family  returned  to  Oyster  Bay,  and  soon 
after  settled  in  New  York  City.  About  1829  he  became 
insane  through  epilepsy.  He  was  subsequently  placed  as  a 
patient  in  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  at  Utica,  whence 
he  was  removed  in  April,  1852,  to  the  private  Retreat,  at 
Brattleboro,  Vermont. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1823  105 

He  died  in  Brattleboro,  of  epileptic  exhaustion,  on  April 
I,  1854,  in  his  50th  year. 
He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Nathaniel  Coles  (Yale  1814). 

Daniel  Crosby,  the  youngest  son  of  General  and  Deacon 
John  and  Sarah  (Wheeler)  Crosby,  of  Hampden,  Penob- 
scot County,  Maine,  was  born  in  Hampden,  on  October  8, 
1799.  A  sister  married  the  Rev.  David  M.  Mitchell  (Yale 
1811). 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Sem- 
inary, where  he  completed  the  course  in  1826. 

On  January  31,  1827,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Conway,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  closed  an  efficient  service  on  July  4,  1833, 
resigning  to  accept  a  call  to  the  newly  formed  Winthrop 
Church  in  Charlestown,  where  he  was  installed  on 
August  14. 

He  had  always  taken  a  special  interest  in  missions,  and  in 
May,  1842,  he  was  induced  to  give  up  the  pastorate  in  order 
to  accept  the  position  of  Assistant  Recording  Secretary  of 
the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions in  Boston.  Among  his  duties  were  the  editorial 
charge  of  the  Dayspring  and  of  the  Missionary  Herald, 
monthly  periodicals  published  by  the  Board. 

He  had  hardly  been  settled  in  his  new  work,  when  he  was 
attacked,  in  December,  with  fatal  illness,  and  his  death  fol- 
lowed, in  Charlestown,  on  February  28^  1843,  ^^  his  44th 
year.  The  sermon  preached  at  his  funeral,  by  the  Rev. 
David  Greene  (Yale  1821),  was  published  with  the  title, 
Ministerial  fidelity  exemplified. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  several  children. 

John  Nicholson  Duncan  entered  College  from  New^ 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  returned  thither  after  graduation. 

He  had  a  promising  career  at  the  bar,  and  was  early 
promoted  to  the  bench  of  the  City  Court. 


Io6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  died  in  New  Orleans  in  January,  1853,  in  his  49th 
year.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Duncan,  removed  to  New 
Haven,  where  her  only  daughter  married,  in  1853,  William 
Preston  Johnston  (Yale  1852)  ;   she  left  no  descendants. 

Nathan  Gallup,  the  eldest  son  of  Lodowick  and  Mar- 
garet (Phelps)  Gallup,  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
January  24,  1803,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of 
the  Sophomore  year.  Asa  O.  Gallup  (Yale  1888)  is  a 
nephew. 

While  pursuing  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  he  died  in  Philadelphia,  on  February  18, 
1827,  aged  24  years.     He  was  unmarried. 

Frederick  William  Hamilton  (originally,  William 
Frederick  Hamilton)  came  to  College  from  Williamsbor- 
ough,  Vance  County,  North  Carolina. 

When  not  quite  21  he  became  a  partner  in  New  York 
City,  on  January  i,  1825,  in  a  mercantile  business  with 
James  Donaldson,  and  so  continued  through  life. 

He  died  in  New  Orleans  in  January,  1853,  in  his  49th 
year. 

Simeon  Hart,  the  fifth  son  of  Simeon  and  Mary 
(Warner)  Hart,  of  Burlington,  then  part  of  Bristol,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  November  17,  1795,  and  entered  Col- 
lege at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year.  A  half-brother 
was  graduated  here  in  1853. 

He  settled  in  Farmington  as  the  principal  of  the  Academy, 
and  there  married,  on  December  9,  1824,  Abigail  Maria,  only 
daughter  of  Asa  and  Hannah  (Burnett)  Andrews,  who  died 
on  August  23,  1838,  in  her  40th  year.  He  next  married,  on 
November  6,  1839,  Abby  Eliza,  daughter  of  Reuben  and 
Patience  (Gilbert)  Langdon,  of  Hartford. 

After  some  years  he  retired  from  the  Academy  and  estab- 
lished a  private  boarding-school  for  boys,  in  which  his 
nephew  (Yale  1836)  was  for  a  time  associated  with  him. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 823  1 07 

Besides  his  great  usefulness  as  a  teacher,  he  was  also 
prominent  in  civil  and  religious  life.  He  served  as  town 
clerk,  and  was  a  Representative  in  the  Legislature  in  1842. 
He  was  instrumental  in  the  establishment  of  a  savings- 
bank,  in  which  he  held  office  as  Secretary. 

He  was  a  Deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church  from 
1827,  and  long  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School. 

He  died  in  Farmington  on  April  30,  1853,  in  his  58th  year. 

By  his  first  marriage  he  had  two  daughters,  and  by  his 
second  marriage  two  daughters  and  three  sons. 

Eleazar  Holt_,  the  youngest  son  of  Stephen  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bunce)  Holt,  of  Norfolk,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
Norfolk  on  April  3,  1799,  and  entered  College  at  the  open- 
ing of  Sophomore  year. 

After  some  years  of  other  employment  he  studied  theol- 
ogy, and  was  licensed  to  preach  on  June  14,  1831,  by  the 
Litchfield  North  Association. 

He  was  ordained  and  installed  a  few  months  later  as 
pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Reading,  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  continued,  greatly  respected,  until  his  death. 

Exposure  in  open-air  preaching  brought  on  a  severe  cold, 
from  the  effects  of  which  he  died,  a  fortnight  later,  on 
February  13,  1835,  i"  his  36th  year. 

He  married,  in  September,  1833,  Mary  Badger,  who 
died  in  July,  1836.     Their  only  child,  a  son,  survived  them. 

Robert  Jameson,  the  younger  son  of  Alexander  and 
Elizabeth  (Stewart)  Jameson,  of  Salem,  Luzerne  County, 
Pennsylvania,  and  a  grandson  of  Robert  Jameson,  an  emi- 
grant from  Ireland  to  Voluntown,  Connecticut,  was  born 
in  Salem  in  1801,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year. 

He  intended  to  study  law,  but  was  prevented  by  the  fail- 
ure of  his  health.  About  1828  he  took  up  the  life  of  a 
farmer,  on  a  large  farm  belonging  to  his  father,  in  Hanover 


Io8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Township,  just  south  of  Wilkes-Barre.      He  died   at  his 
father's  house,  unmarried,  on  July  25,  1838,  at  the  age  of  2)7- 

Ebenezer  Mead,  the  eldest  son  of  Colonel  Ebenezer  and 
Zetta  S.  (Mead)  Mead,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Greenwich  on  August  6,  1803.  A  half-brother  was 
graduated  in  1830. 

He  entered  the  Auburn  (New  York)  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1824,  and  finished  the  course  in  1827. 

On  May  20,  1828,  he  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain William  and  Elizabeth  (Burgess)  Lester,  of  Canter- 
bury, Connecticut,  and  sister  of  William  Lester  (Yale  1821), 
and  on  July  15,  1829,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Riga,  about  fifteen  miles  from 
Rochester,  New  York.  He  was  dismissed  from  this  charge 
on  July  II,  1833,  and  in  1834  was  serving  as  Stated  Supply 
at  Knowlesville,  in  Orleans  County. 

His  wife  died  in  1836,  at  the  age  of  38;  and  he  next 
married,  on  August  6,  1837,  Mary  Ann  Benedict,  second 
daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Asa  Lyman  (Yale  1797),  of 
Clinton. 

On  October  10,  1837,  he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Leroy,  Genesee  County,  where  he 
remained  until  his  dismission  on  October  11,  1843. 

His  health  soon  after  declined  so  that  he  was  unable  to 
undertake  further  labor.  He  returned  to  his  native  place, 
and  died  at  Horse  Neck,  in  Greenwich,  after  a  protracted 
illness,  from  consumption,  on  December  28,  1848,  in  his 
46th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him. 

By  his  first  marriage  he  had  three  sons  and  a  daughter; 
and  by  his  second  marriage  a  son. 

He  was  a  man  of  devoted  piety. 

Henry  Edward  Peck,  the  youngest  son  of  Nathan  and 
Mehitable  (Tibbals)  Peck,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  in  New 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1823        "   I09 

Haven  on  March  i8,  1805.  Robert  Peck  (Yale  1847)  was 
a  nephew. 

He  studied  law  in  the  law  school  affiliated  with  the  Col- 
lege, and  practiced  his  profession  for  a  few  years ;  but  was 
finally  drawn  aside  into  editorial  and  other  work. 

In  May,  1829,  he  began  the  publication  of  a  semi-weekly 
paper,  called  the  New  Haven  Advertiser,  which  continued 
for  three  or  four  years.  In  connection  with  this  business, 
he  undertook  the  republication  in  cheap  form  of  four  stand- 
ard English  reviews. 

About  1839  he  entered  into  the  shipping  business  in  New 
Haven  in  connection  with  his  brothers,  and  was  so  engaged 
until  his  death.  Meantime  he  was  actively  interested  in 
public  affairs.  He  was  a  representative  of  the  town  in  the 
State  Legislature  in  1847,  1848,  and  1850;  he  was  espe- 
cially prominent  in  the  last  of  these  sessions,  and  was  a 
candidate  for  the  office  of  Speaker. 

In  1 85 1  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church. 

He  died  in  New  Haven,  of  pneumonia,  on  May  6,  1858, 
in  his  54th  year. 

He  married,  on  September  27,  1827,  Elizabeth,  elder 
daughter  of  Dr.  Elisha  Sheldon  (Yale  1800),  of  Troy,  New 
York,  who  died  in  New  Haven,  on  August  i,  1893,  aged 
89  years. 

Their  children  were  two  daughters  and  two  sons;  the 
eldest,  a  boy  of  much  promise,  died  just  before  entering 
College. 

Stephen  Peet,  youngest  son  of  Elijah  and  Betsey 
(Leavenworth)  Peet,  was  born  in  Sandgate,  Vermont,  on 
February  20,  1797.  His  parents  removed  in  his  infancy  to 
Lee,  Massachusetts,  and  thence  about  1814  to  Ohio,  where 
his  father  died  in  the  same  year.  Although  almost  entirely 
dependent  on  his  own  exertions,  he  resolved  to  obtain  an 
education  for  the  ministry.     He  was  prepared  for  College 


no  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

by  the  Rev.  Ralph  Emerson  (Yale  1811)  in  Norfolk,  Con- 
necticut. 

He  began  the  study  of  theology  in  the  Princeton  Semi- 
nary, but  after  a  few  months  returned  to  Norfolk  for  further 
study  with  Mr.  Emerson.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Litchfield  North  Association  on  September  27,  1824,  and 
spent  the  following  year  in  the  Auburn  Theological 
Seminary. 

He  then  returned  to  Ohio,  and  was  ordained  and  installed 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Cleveland  on  February  22,  1826,  as 
pastor  of  the  Collamer  Church  in  Euclid,  just  outside  of 
Cleveland. 

On  May  i,  1826,  he  married  Martha  (Denison),  widow 
of  the  Rev,  Henry  Sherman  (Yale  1803),  who  died  in  New 
Haven  in  1817. 

His  pastorate  in  Euclid  was  a  powerful  one;  but  he 
resigned  in  1833,  in  order  to  organize,  under  the  direction 
of  the  American  Bethel  Society,  efforts  for  the  religious 
benefit  of  sailors  and  boatmen  on  the  Great  Lakes.  He 
spent  four  years  in  this  labor,  with  his  headquarters  in 
Buffalo,  where  he  edited  for  part  of  the  time  the  Buffalo 
Spectator,  and  served  as  chaplain  of  the  Bethel  Church. 

In  October,  1837,  he  went  to  Green  Bay,  Wisconsin  Ter- 
ritory, and  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the  only  Presbyterian 
Church  within  the  limits  of  the  present  State.  During  his 
ministry  of  two  years  he  was  partly  occupied  with  explora- 
tion for  missionary  purposes. 

On  October  i,  1839,  he  took  charge  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Milwaukee,  where  he  labored  successfully 
until  June  i,  1841. 

He  was  then  appointed  General  Agent  of  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society  for  the  Territory,  and  in  that 
capacity  taxed  his  energies  to  the  utmost,  with  eminent 
success.  Seven  years  of  these  efforts  prepared  the  way  for 
the  next  great  work  of  his  life,  the  establishment  of  a  college 
modeled  upon  Yale. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  III 

In  1848  he  resigned  his  secretaryship,  and  for  the  next 
two  years  served  as  agent  for  Beloit  College.  He  was  then 
prostrated  by  severe  illness,  but  unexpectedly  recovered  so 
as  to  be  able  to  take  the  pastoral  charge  in  1850  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Batavia,  Illinois,  where  he 
remained  for  three  years. 

The  crowning  work  of  his  life  followed  his  last  pastorate. 
He  matured  a  plan  for  the  foundation  of  the  Chicago 
Theological  Seminary,  and  devoted  himself  to  the  collection 
of  necessary  funds.  After  an  arduous  journey  to  the  East 
on  this  business,  he  was  attacked  with  chills  and  fever, 
resulting  in  inflammation  of  the  lungs,  and  his  death  fol- 
lowed, in  Chicago,  on  March  21,  1855,  ^t  the  age  of  58.  He 
was  buried  in  Beloit. 

His  widow  made  her  home  in  Beloit,  dying  on  November 
13,  1877,  in  her  82d  year. 

Their  children  were  three  daughters  and  three  sons.  The 
eldest  son  was  graduated  at  Beloit  College  in  185 1,  and  is 
well  known  as  an  archaeologist. 

Dudley  Phelps,  son  of  Obadiah  and  Arminda  (Phelps) 
Phelps,  of  Hebron,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  25, 
1798,  and  was  named  for  a  brother  of  his  father,  with 
whom  he  lived,  in  Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  while  pre- 
paring  for  College. 

He  spent  three  years,  1824-27,  in  the  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  and  in  November,  1827,  was  called,  on  a  salary 
of  $700,  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Parish  Church  in 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  ordained  and 
installed  on  January  9,  1828. 

On  October  4,  1831,  he  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Aaron  Kinsman  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1787)  and  Nancy  (Wil- 
lis) Kinsman,  of  Portland,  Maine. 

He  was  strongly  orthodox  in  his  sentiments,  and  his 
frankness  and  independence,  as  well  as  his  activity  in  behalf 
of  temperance  and  anti-slavery,  led  to  action  by  the  parish 


112  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

(under  the  control  of  Unitarians  and  Universalists)  in 
November,  1832,  which  resulted  in  his  dismission  on  August 
28,  1833. 

He  then  spent  some  time  in  Salem,  and  in  1834-35  was 
editor  of  the  Landmark,  a  semi-weekly  religious  paper. 

On  October  19,  1836,  he  was  installed  over  the  Union 
Congregational  Church  in  Groton,  where  he  continued  until 
his  death  there,  on  September  24,  1849,  i"  ^is  52d  year. 

His  wife  died  in  Haverhill  on  May  12,  1834,  aged  26 
years;  and  he  married,  in  Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  on 
October  12,  1837,  Lucretia,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Benjamin 
Mark  Farley  (Harvard  1804)  and  Lucretia  (Gardner)  Far- 
ley, of  Hollis  and  Groton,  who  died  on  February  22,  1868. 

His  children  were  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  The 
eldest  son  (the  only  child  of  the  first  marriage)  was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1853,  and  left  a  son  (Yale  1883)  who  bears 
his  grandfather's  name. 

LeRoy  Pope,  a  son  of  Colonel  LeRoy  Pope,  of  Peters- 
burg, Georgia,  and  grandson  of  LeRoy  Pope,  of  West- 
moreland County,  Virginia,  was  born  about  1802.  His 
great-grandfather,  John  Pope,  was  a  third  cousin  of  General 
George  Washington.  The  family  removed  to  Huntsville, 
Alabama,  about  1809.  A  brother.  Colonel  John  Pope,  was 
graduated  here  in  1815;  and  another  brother,  Alexander, 
entered  the  Class  of  1824  in  1822  (when  LeRoy  entered  the 
Class  of  1823),  but  soon  withdrew. 

He  studied  law  and  began  practice  in  Florence,  in  north- 
western Alabama,  though  preferring  editorial  work,  to 
which  he  had  earlier  been  devoted.  In  1839  he  married 
Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Philip  A.  Foote,  of  Huntsville,  and 
in  the  same  year  removed  to  Memphis,  Tennessee. 

Besides  his  activity  in  his  profession,  he  was  greatly  inter- 
ested in  education;  and  this  led  him  in  1857  to  accept  the 
office  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  in  Memphis, 
which  he  held  until  obliged  by  ill  health  to  remove  in  1862 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  TI3 

to  Hernando,  in  northwestern  Mississippi.  In  commemora- 
tion of  his  able  and  efficient  services,  one  of  the  Public 
Schools  in  Memphis  bears  his  name. 

In  his  later  years  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Memphis.  He  died  on  October  12,  1870,  near 
Greenville,  Mississippi,  while  on  a  visit  to  a  nephew,  for 
the  benefit  of  his  health,  and  was  buried  there. 

His  widow  died  in  Memphis  in  1905. 

Their  eldest  son  was  killed  in  the  Confederate  army  in 
the  Civil  War.  Two  other  children  died  in  early  life,  and 
a  daughter  and  son  survived  him. 

Mr.  Pope  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  while  living  in  Memphis  was  largely  instrumental  in  the 
establishment  of  Calvary  Church,  of  which  he  was  a  vestry- 
man. His  wife  was  the  founder  and  President  of  St. 
Mary's  Episcopal  Institute  in  Memphis,  a  boarding-school 
for  girls. 

Edmund  Luther  Reed  (originally  Luther  Edmund 
Reed),  the  eldest  son  of  Josiah  Marvin  and  Diadamia 
(Bradley)  Reed,  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
December  28,  1801. 

After  graduation  he  taught  select  schools  in  Salisbury  and 
Sharon,  and  in  1831  removed  to  Bethany,  Wayne  County, 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  the  principal  of  the  Beechwoods 
Academy. 

He  died  in  Bethany  on  March  22,  1855,  in  his  54th  year. 

He  married,  in  1825,  Louisa,  youngest  daughter  of 
Colonel  Martin  Ebenezer  and  Clarissa  (Hartwell)  Winchell, 
of  North  East,  Duchess  County,  New  York,  and  sister  of  the 
Rev.  James  M.  Winchell  (Brown  Univ.  1812),  a  prominent 
Baptist  minister  of  Boston.  She  died  on  May  22,  1834,  in 
her  30th  year,  and  he  next  married,  on  April  29,  1835, 
Amanda  Wadsworth,  of  Lee,  Massachusetts. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  a  daughter  and  a  son,  and  by 
his  second  wife  four  daughters  and  two  sons. 


114  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

Timothy  Rogers,  son  of  Dr.  Seth  and  Mary  (Pinto) 
Rogers,  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  about 
1804.  His  father  died  in  his  infancy,  and  his  mother 
removed  to  Middletown,  Connecticut,  where  her  mother 
(Mrs.  Anna  Pinto)  had  settled  as  the  wife  of  Giles  Meigs 
in  1777.  He  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the  Sophomore 
year. 

On  account  of  feeble  health  he  was  prevented  from  study- 
ing a  profession.  He  died  in  North  Carolina  on  August  17, 
1828,  aged  24  years. 

JuDSON  Adoniram  Root,  the  youngest  child  of  Jesse  and 
Elizabeth  (Minor)  Root,  of  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Woodbury  on  May  11,  1798,  but  entered  the  Sopho- 
more Class  as  a  resident  of  Norfolk. 

After  teaching  for  a  year  in  West  Point,  New  York,  he 
took  the  full  course  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  In  his 
Senior  year  there  he  supplied  the  church  in  Cheshire,  and 
was  called  to  the  pastorate  on  June  18,  1827,  but  declined. 
He  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  North  Branford  on  October  15,  1828. 
He  had  already  been  married,  on  May  5,  to  Emily  M.,  fifth 
daughter  of  Captain  Ebenezer  and  Rebecca  (Dickerman) 
Peck,  of  New  Haven. 

After  a  useful  pastorate,  he  was  dismissed  at  his  own 
request,  on  account  of  poor  health,  in  October,  1834,  and 
was  then  employed  for  a  short  time  as  an  agent  in  raising 
funds  for  Yale.  Later,  he  edited  a  religious  paper  in  New 
Haven  for  about  a  year;  and  conducted  here  a  young 
ladies'  school  with  marked  success. 

As  he  recovered  health  he  resumed  preaching  occasionally, 
and  at  length  ventured,  in  April,  1841,  to  undertake  the 
regular  supply  for  a  year  of  the  small  Congregational 
Church  in  North  Madison.  To  this  succeeded  the  pastorate 
of  the  church  in  Westville,  from  April  20,  1842,  to  Septem- 
ber 22,    1846;    and  lastly  the  pastorate  of  the  church  in 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  II5 

Terryville,  in  the  town  of  Plymouth,  from  October  7,  1846, 
to  May  16,  1849. 

His  health  forbade  further  ministerial  service,  but  he 
conducted  a  Young-  Ladies'  Collegiate  Institute  in  New 
Haven,  and  in  later  years  was  connected  with  a  savings 
bank  and  building  association  here,  dying  on  August  31, 
1855,  in  his  58th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  New  Haven  on  October  28,  1869,  aged 
66  years.  Their  children  were  two  sons,  of  whom  the  elder 
(Yale  1852)  became  a  clergyman,  and  a  son  of  the  younger 
was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1898. 

Aaron  Nichols  Skinner  was  born  in  Woodstock,  Con- 
necticut, on  May  6,  1800.  His  father,  Benjamin  Hills  Skin- 
ner, son  of  Jonathan  and  Drusilla  (Perrin)  Skinner,  died  in 
May,  1808;  and  his  mother,  Polly,  daughter  of  Captain 
Jonathan  Nichols,  subsequently  married  a  Houghton. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale 
Law  School,  and  was  also  occupied  with  teaching,  until  he 
entered  on  a  College  tutorship  in  the  fall  of  1825.  In  1829 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  retired  from  the  tutorial 
office  to  practice  his  profession,  with  the  best  prospects  of 
success. 

The  reputation  which  he  had  gained  as  a  teacher  led  to 
his  being  induced  to  take  a  few  boys  into  his  family;  and 
the  number  so  increased  that  before  long  it  was  necessary 
for  him  to  retire  from  professional  labor,  and  devote  himself 
exclusively  to  his  pupils.  The  high  character  of  his  school 
became  widely  known,  and  his  time  was  mainly  absorbed 
by  these  duties. 

He  was  much  engaged,  however,  in  public  service.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  1841,  1842,  and 
1845,  and  in  the  two  latter  years  became  ex  officio  a  Fellow 
of  the  Yale  Corporation.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Lower  House  in  1849. 


Il6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  1850  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  city,  and  adminis- 
tered that  office  with  striking  efficiency  until  1854,  when  he 
declined  a  further  nomination. 

His  public  spirit  was  effectively  seen  in  his  care  for  the 
upkeep  and  adornment  of  the  City  Green,  the  Grove  Street 
Cemetery,  and  the  public  avenues  and  parks. 

He  married,  on  May  24,  1829,  Harriet  Backus,  eldest 
daughter  of  Deacon  Nathan  Whiting,  of  New  Haven,  and 
sister  of  a  classmate,  who  died  in  New  Haven  on  June  20, 
1885,  at  the  age  of  80.     They  left  no  children. 

Sidney  Smith,  son  of  William  Smith,  of  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  was  born  on  April 
II,  1805,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore 
year.     His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Wilson,  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Ohio,  and  devoted  his  life  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  For  many  years  his  residence 
was  in  Brighton,  in  Hampton  County,  about  forty  miles 
northwest  of  Beaufort,  near  the  Savannah  River.  Late  in 
life  he  removed  to  the  neighborhood  of  Marietta,  Georgia, 
where  he  died,  in  Rock  Ford,  of  cancer  of  the  throat,  after 
a  long  and  painful  illness,  on  April  16,  1856. 

He  was  married,  on  January  15,  1829,  to  Eliza,  daughter 
of  William  and  Catharine  (Mann)  Lawton,  by  whom  he 
had  nine  children,  of  whom  four  lived  to  maturity.  She 
died  on  March  9,  1845.  ^^^  son  was  graduated  at  the  Medi- 
cal Department  of  the  New  York  University  in  1859. 

He  next  married,  on  January  22,  1846,  Maria,  daughter 
of  William  King,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons,  two  of  whom 
grew  to  manhood. 

He  was  a  man  of  unusual  mental  gifts,  an  earnest  student, 
and  devoted  to  the  good  of  the  community  and  of  mankind. 
When  the  art  of  the  daguerreotype  was  first  introduced,  he 
was  a  pioneer  in  cultivating  it  in  the  South. 

He  opposed  strenuously  the  act  of  nullification  in  South 
Carolina,  and  by  his  personal  efforts  retarded  the  action  of 
that  State. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  II7 

Ezra  Stiles,  the  youngest  son  of  Captain  Asahel  and 
Tryphena  (Chapin)  Stiles,  of  Broad  Brook,  in  East  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut,  was  born  on  July  19,  1799. 

For  the  year  after  graduation  he  taught  a  grammar 
school  in  Hartford,  and  was  then  similarly  employed  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  for  two  or  three  years  in 
his  native  town.  He  was  next  for  three  years  in  charge 
of  an  academy  in  Athens,  Ohio ;  but  on  account  of  impaired 
health  was  then  obliged  to  undertake  more  active  work, 
and  found  employment  with  a  prominent  firm  of  stone- 
quarries  in  Syracuse,  New  York. 

He  finally  went  into  a  similar  line  of  business  (marble- 
quarrying)  for  himself,  but  died  of  a  fever  in  Syracuse  on 
April  7,  1844,  in  his  45th  year. 

He  was  prominently  known  as  in  sympathy  with  the 
advanced  abolitionists. 

He  married,  on  November  27,  1823,  Anna,  daughter  of 
David  and  Mary  (Clark)  Spear,  of  Ellington,  Connecticut, 
who  died  on  August  25,  1889,  in  Oswego.  Their  children 
were  one  daughter  and  one  son. 

Daniel  Wordsworth  Whiting,  the  eldest  child  of 
Nathan  and  Lydia  (Backus)  Whiting,  was  born  in  Canaan, 
Columbia  County,  New  York,  on  December  28,  1802.  The 
family  removed  to  New  Haven  in  1814,  and  the  father 
became  a  Deacon  in  the  First  Church  and  publisher  of  the 
Religious  Intelligencer,  a  weekly  periodical.  A  brother 
was  graduated  here  in  1833,  and  a  sister  married  Aaron  N. 
Skinner  (Yale  1823). 

The  son  pursued  the  study  of  law,  with  some  interruptions 
from  illness,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Haven  bar. 
He  also  acted  for  some  years  as  assistant  editor  of  his 
father's  paper,  and  was  a  contributor  to  its  pages,  both  of 
prose  and  poetry. 

He  died  in  New  Haven,  after  a  long  and  suffering  illness, 
on  March  2,  1832,  in  his  30th  year. 

He  was  a  man  of  original  mind,  and  much  beloved. 


Il8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  married,  on  April  6,  1831,  his  first  cousin,  Mary,  sec- 
ond daughter  of  Daniel  and  Betsey  (Powers)  Whiting,  of 
Troy,  New  York.     They  had  no  children. 

She  next  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Brainerd,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, on  October  29,  1836,  and  died  at  her  son's  house 
in  Montreal,  Canada,  on  February  12,  1889,  in  her  83d  year. 

Joseph  Whiting  was  born  in  Milford,  Connecticut,  on 
July  31,  1800,  the  son  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Anne  (Gunn) 
Whiting. 

He  studied  theology  while  teaching  in  New  London,  and 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  London  Association  of 
Ministers  in  1826.  In  the  summer  of  1827  he  began  to 
supply  the  Congregational  Church  in  Cheshire,  and  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  on  August  29.  On  October  24  he 
was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor,  and  he  remained  there 
until  his  dismission,  on  account  of  inadequate  support,  on 
August  29,  1836. 

He  soon  after  went  to  Ohio,  and  lived  for  several  years 
in  Cleveland,  preaching  occasionally. 

In  1840  he  became  Principal  of  a  branch  of  the  State 
University  of  Michigan,  located  at  Niles;  whence  he  was 
transferred  in  the  summer  of  1841  to  the  Professorship  of 
Ancient  Languages  in  the  mother  university  at  Ann  Arbor, 
being  one  of  the  first  two  officers  to  begin  regular  instruction 
there. 

He  died  in  Ann  Arbor  on  July  20,  1845,  just  before  the 
graduation  of  the  first  class,  at  the  age  of  45. 

He  married,  on  May  14,  1828,  Harriet  Lewis,  eldest 
child  of  Judge  William  P.  Cleaveland  (Yale  1793),  of  New 
London,  by  his  second  wife,  Abby  Richards.  She  died  in 
Spencerport,  New  York,  on  April  27,  1877,  in  her  71st  year. 
Their  children  were  two  daughters  and  two  sons. 

John  Wight,  the  fourth  son  of  Hezekiah  Lord  and 
Nancy  (Leeds)  Wight,  of  Preston,  Connecticut,  and  Rich- 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 823  II9 

mend,  Virginia,  was  born  in  Richmond  on  November  15, 
1803.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1822. 

He  settled  in  Richmond  as  a  merchant,  and  on  September 
18,  1827,  married  Augusta  Maria,  daughter  of  Samuel  Hug- 
gins,  of  New  Haven,  who  died  in  June,  1830. 

He  next  married,  in  November,  1831,  Margaret  Copland 
Brown. 

By  his  first  marriage  he  had  one  daughter,  and  by  his 
second  five  daughters  and  three  sons.  One  son  was  killed 
in  battle  in  the  Confederate  service. 

In  later  life  he  lived  upon  a  farm  in  Hanover  County, 
where  he  died,  probably  in  1883. 

Samuel  McCulloch  Williamson  was  a  native  of 
Northampton  County,  North  Carolina ;  a  brother  was  grad- 
uated in  1 82 1.  The  Hon.  Weldon  N.  Edwards,  of  Warren- 
ton,  then  a  Member  of  Congress,  was  his  guardian  at  the 
time  of  his  graduation. 

He  became  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  and  spent  his  min- 
isterial life  in  southwestern  Tennessee.  In  1833  he  was 
acting  as  a  stated  supply  in  Memphis,  and  in  1836-37  in 
Covington.  He  then  settled  in  Fayette  County, — for  four 
or  five  years  in  Lagrange,  and  for  the  rest  of  his  life  in 
Somerville  (his  brother's  residence). 

He  died  on  July  6,  1846,  aged  about  43  years. 

Henry  Hopkins  Woodbridge,  the  eldest  son  of  Joseph 
and  Louisa  (Hopkins)  Woodbridge,  of  Stockbridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  a  first  cousin  of  President  Mark  Hopkins,  of 
Williams  College,  was  born  on  April  16,  1804. 

After  some  years  of  other  employment,  in  1831  he  entered 
the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and  leaving  there  in 
the  winter  of  1832-33  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Columbia. 

In  October,  1833,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  in  (North)  Canaan,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  remained  until  deposed  from  the  ministry, 


I20  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

by  the  Litchfield  North  Consociation,  for  acknowledged 
immorality,  on  October  4,  1842. 

He  then  went  to  Milwaukee,  and  took  up  the  profession 
of  the  law.  He  died  in  Milwaukee  on  October  19,  1844,  in 
his  41st  year. 

He  married  Louisa  Rosecranz,  who  after  his  death 
returned  to  North  Canaan,  and  there  married  on  May  2, 
1850,  Luther  Munson.  She  died  in  North  Canaan  on  the 
13th  of  the  following  August,  in  her  38th  year. 

He  had  three  children. 

Thomas  John  Young,  the  youngest  child  of  William 
Price  and  Dinah  (Cox)  Young,  of  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina, was  born  in  Charleston  on  October  22,  1803. 

His  father's  family  were  Episcopalians,  and  he  left  Col- 
lege with  the  intention  of  studying  for  the  ministry;  but 
pecuniary  embarrassments,  consequent  on  the  death  of 
his  father  while  he  was  in  College,  obliged  him  to  spend 
one  year  as  Tutor  in  the  College  of  Charleston  and  in  private 
teaching. 

He  then  entered  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York  City,  and  after  a  somewhat  abbreviated  course 
there  he  w^as  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Bowen 
in  Charleston,  on  March  11,  1827. 

After  six  months'  service  as  a  missionary  in  Greenville,  in 
the  northwestern  corner  of  the  State,  he  accepted  (in  Jan- 
uary, 1828)  a  call  to  two  feeble  parishes,  St.  Luke  and 
Prince  William,  in  the  vicinity  of  Charleston,  and  on  March 
15,  1829,  he  was  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  by  Bishop 
Bowen. 

After  1830  he  confined  his  labors  to  St.  Luke's  Parish, 
until  November  i,  1836,  when  he  became  rector  of  St. 
John's  Church,  on  John's  Island,  about  seven  miles  south- 
west of  Charleston. 

In  his  previous  charges  he  had  succeeded  especially  in 
awakening  a  stronger  interest  in  the  moral  and  religious 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1824  12  1 

condition  of  the  negroes;  and  a  principal  motive  in  his 
going  to  John's  Island  was  to  develop  the  same  kind  of 
interest. 

His  ministry  v^as  eminently  successful,  and  was  only  ter- 
minated by  his  transference  on  June  6,  1847,  to  the  post  of 
Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Michael's  Church,  Charleston. 

His  health  had  always  been  infirm,  and  in  1849  was  so 
much  reduced  that  his  congregation  sent  him  abroad  for 
six  months.  There  was,  however,  no  permanent  improve- 
ment, and  in  July,  1852,  during  a  journey,  he  contracted  the 
country  fever,  which  caused  his  death,  in  Charleston,  on 
October  11,  at  the  age  of  49. 

He  married,  on  April  27,  1828,  Anna  Rebecca  Gourdin,  of 
Charleston,  who  long  survived  him.  Their  children  were 
five  sons  and  two  daughters. 


CLASS  OF    1824 

Thomas  Belden,  son  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth  (Isaacs) 
Belden,  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  and  Carmel,  Putnam 
County,  New  York,  was  born  in  Carmel  on  September  28, 
1802. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  for  a  time  in  a  broker's 
ojffice  in  New  York  City;  but  his  health  was  delicate,  and 
in  the  winter  of  1829-30  he  went  to  Matamoros,  Mexico, 
where  he  engaged  in  business.  He  was  quite  successful, 
but  died  there,  of  quick  consumption,  in  October.  1833,  at 
the  age  of  31.     He  was  never  married. 

Eliab  Brewer,  the  third  son  of  Eliab  Brewer  (Yale 
1793),  was  born  in  Lenox,  Massachusetts,  on  October  18, 
1797.  His  father  died  in  1804,  and  he  was  enabled  to  come 
to  College  by  the  heroic  exertions  of  his  mother,  who  lived 
in  New  Haven  while  her  three  sons  were  undergraduates. 

His  eldest  brother  (Yale  1823)  was  taken  seriously  ill 
while  editing  a  newspaper  in  Fayetteville,  North  Carolina,  in 


122  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

the  winter  of  1824-25;  to  settle  his  affairs  this  brother 
went  thither,  and  subsequently  remained  there,  engaged  in 
teaching  and  in  the  study  of  law. 

He  died  near  Newbern,  while  a  private  tutor  in  Mr. 
Benjamin  Borden's  family,  on  September  5,  1829,  in  his 
32d  year. 

Stephen  Elisha  Avery  Burritt,  the  only  son  of 
Stephen  and  Hannah  Piatt  Burritt,  of  Bridgeport,  Con- 
necticut, and  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Ephraim  Avery  (Yale 
1761),  was  born  on  November  8,  1804.  His  father  died 
in  1815. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Virginia  as  a  teacher.  He 
came  home,  ill,  and  died  in  Bridgeport  from  consumption 
on  April  20,  1825,  in  his  21st  year. 

Richard  Falley  Cleveland,  the  youngest  son  of  Deacon 
William  Cleveland,  a  silversmith  and  watch-  and  clock- 
maker  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  and  Margaret  (Falley) 
Cleveland,  was  born  on  June  19,  1804,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1821. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Baltimore,  at  the  same 
time  pursuing  the  study  of  theology  under  the  direction  of 
the  Rev.  William  Nevins  (Yale  1816).  He  spent  a  part  of 
the  year  1827-28  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
and  was  a  resident  licentiate  in  New  Haven  in  the  fall  of 
1828. 

He  married,  on  September  10,  1829,  Ann,  daughter  of 
Abner  and  Barbara  (Reel)  Neal,  of  Baltimore,  and  on 
October  15,  1829,  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  Church  in  Windham,  Connecticut. 
He  was  dismissed  from  this  charge  on  October  i,  1832,  at 
his  own  request,  much  to  the  regret  of  his  people. 

After  a  year  or  two  of  labor  as  a  Stated  Supply  in  Ports- 
mouth, Virginia,  he  was  installed  in  November,  1834,  over 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 824  I  23 

the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
labored  with  eminent  success  for  about  six  and  a  half  years. 

In  September,  1841,  he  began  to  supply  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Fayetteville,  Onondaga  County,  New  York,  and 
after  three  years'  service  he  was  installed  as  pastor  on 
September  19,  1844. 

He  resigned  this  charge  at  the  end  of  1849  to  accept  an 
appointment  as  Secretary  of  the  Central  New  York  Agency 
of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  with  his  resi- 
dence at  Clinton.  He  found  this  work,  however,  too  severe 
for  his  health,  and  accepted  a  call  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Holland  Patent,  about  fifteen  miles  to  the  north- 
east of  Clinton,  where  he  was  installed  on  September  14, 
1853.  He  was  able  to  preach  on  the  following  Sunday,  but 
was  then  attacked  with  ulceration  of  the  stomach,  which 
caused  his  death,  a  fortnight  later,  on  October  i,  in  his 
50th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Holland  Patent  on  July  19,  1882,  in 
her  77th  year. 

His  children  were  five  daughters  and  four  sons,  all  of 
whom  survived  him.  The  eldest  son  (Hamilton  Coll.  1851) 
became  a  clergyman;  and  the  third  son  became  Governor 
of  New  York  and  President  of  the  United  States.  The 
eldest  daughter  married  the  Rev.  Eurotas  P.  Hastings 
(Hamilton  Coll.  1842),  a  missionary  to  India. 

Mr.  Cleveland  was  a  man  of  superior  ability,  and  a  fervent 
and  logical  preacher. 

Robert  Crozier,  the  eldest  son  of  Captain  John  Crozier, 
of  Knoxville,  Tennessee,  entered  Yale  in  1823. 

He  returned  to  Knoxville  after  graduation,  and  took 
editorial  charge  of  a  literary  and  political  newspaper  pub- 
lished there. 

About  1 83 1  he  emigrated  to  Key  West,  in  the  Territory 
of  East  Florida,  where  he  acted  as  United  States  Attorney 


124  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

pro  tempore  and  as  Deputy  Marshal.     While  thus  occupied, 
he  died  there  on  October  17,  1833,  at  the  age  of  28. 

David  Johnson  Gardiner,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Lyon 
and  Sarah  (Griswold)  Gardiner,  of  Gardiner's  Island,  at 
the  east  end  of  Long  Island,  was  born  in  1803  or  1804.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  Diodate  Johnson  Griswold  (Yale  1793). 

His  father,  the  seventh  proprietor  of  Gardiner's  Island, 
died  in  November,  1816,  and  this  son  succeeded  to  the 
proprietorship. 

He  died,  unmarried,  on  Gardiner's  Island,  on  December 
18,  1829,  and  was  succeeded  in  his  rights  by  his  next  eldest 
brother. 

James  Reeve  Gould,  the  third  son  of  Judge  James  Gould 
(Yale  1791),  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
November  2,  1803. 

He  studied  law  in  his  father's  law  school,  and  began  prac- 
tice in  1827  in  Augusta,  Georgia,  where  an  elder  brother 
(Yale  1816)  was  already  settled. 

He  died  in  Augusta  on  October  11,  1830,  in  his  27th  year. 
He  was  never  married. 

George  Griffin,  the  elder  son  of  Colonel  Josiah  and 
Dorothy  (Gates)  Griffin,  of  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  and 
a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  D.  Griffin  (Yale  1790), 
was  born  on  May  17,  1801. 

He  went  to  Hillsboro,  Georgia,  to  teach,  and  died  there, 
unmarried,  on  October  16,  1826,  in  his  26th  year. 

George  Griswold,  of  New  York  City,  the  eldest  son  of 
Nathaniel  Lynde  and  Ann  B.  Griswold,  entered  Yale  from 
Columbia  College  in  1822.  A  first  cousin  was  graduated  in 
1829. 

After  a  course  of  medical  study  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  1828  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 824  T25 

He  spent  one  year  in  South  America,  but  returned  to  New 
York  and  went  into  practice. 

He  died  in  New  York,  after  a  lingering  illness,  on  Jan- 
uary 20,  1836,  in  his  31st  year. 

Amasa  Austin  Hayes,  the  eldest  child  of  Amasa  and 
Ruth  (Jones)  Hayes,  of  Granby,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
August  I,  1797,  or  January  21,  1798. 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  and  on  leaving  there  began  almost 
at  once  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Londonderry,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  gave  such  satis- 
faction that  he  was  unanimously  called  to  the  pastorate,  and 
was  ordained  and  installed  on  June  25,  1828. 

His  health,  however,  began  almost  at  once  to  decline, 
and  after  a  long  and  pathetic  struggle  with  disease,  he  died 
in  Londonderry  on  October  25,  1830,  at  the  age  of  33. 

He  married  Phebe  C.  Gould,  of  Granby,  who  survived 
him,  without  children,  and  next  married,  on  November  i, 
1832,  Sheriff  John  Sleeper  Brown,  of  the  neighboring  town 
of  Chester,  New  Hampshire. 

John  Pierpont  Herrick,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
Claudius  Herrick  (Yale  1798),  of  Woodbridge,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  February  15,  1805.  The  family  removed  to 
New  Haven  in  1807. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Medical  School  in  1825,  and  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1828. 

He  soon  after  began  practice  in  East  Windsor;  but  in 
1833  removed  to  Southampton,  Long  Island,  his  father's 
native  place,  and  was  there  engaged  in  his  profession  until 
his  death. 

He  married,  in  1838,  Esther  Phebe,  daughter  of  James 
and  Phebe  (Cook)  Foster,  of  Southampton,  by  whom  he 
had  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 


126  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

After  a  year's  gradual  decline  in  health,  he  died  in  South- 
ampton on  January  28,  1848,  at  the  age  of  43.  His  second 
son  was  graduated  at  the  Yale  Medical  School  in  1865. 

William  Moseley  Holland,  son  of  Dr.  William  and 
Ckrissa  (Moseley)  Holland,  of  Belchertown,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  in  1804.  His  father  removed  to  Westfield  in 
1813,  but  returned  to  Belchertown  in  1819.  He  entered 
College  in  1821. 

After  graduation  he  taught  with  marked  acceptance  for 
two  years  in  Hartford,  and  then  filled  a  tutorship  in  Yale 
for  a  like  period.  Meantime  he  had  studied  law,  and  in 
1828  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

He  then  began  practice  in  Hartford,  but  in  May,  183 1, 
accepted  an  appointment  as  Principal  of  the  Friends'  Acad- 
emy in  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts.  He  gave  good  satis- 
faction there,  but  resigned  in  October,  on  his  appointment 
as  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages  in  Washington,  now 
Trinity  College,  Hartford. 

He  held  this  professorship  for  six  years,  and  during  that 
time  published,  in  1835,  a  small  volume  on  the  Life  and 
Opinions  of  Martin  Van  Buren,  with  w^hom  he  sympathized 
politically. 

In  1840  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  and  resumed  law 
practice.  His  health  failing  in  1841,  he  spent  the  ensuing 
winter  at  Santa  Cruz,  in  the  West  Indies,  and  died  in  New 
York  on  July  18,  1842,  at  the  age  of  38. 

He  was  never  married. 

Austin  Osgood  Hubbard,  the  second  son  of  Phineas  and 
Catharine  (Nash)  Hubbard,  of  Sunderland,  Franklin 
County,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  August  9,  1800.  The 
family  removed  in  1805  to  Stanstead,  in  the  present  Province 
of  Quebec,  just  north  of  the  Vermont  line. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Maryland,  at  the  same 
time  pursuing  theological  studies  under  the  direction  of  the 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 824  I27 

Presbytery  of  Baltimore,  which  licensed  him  to  preach  in 
October,  1826. 

On  February  24,  1828,  he  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist 
by  the  Presbytery,  and  then  labored  as  a  missionary  in 
Frederick  County  for  two  years.  He  was  next  for  a  short 
time  Principal  of  an  academy  in  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania, 
while  also  supplying  a  neighboring  church. 

For  over  two  years  (1831-33)  he  studied  in  the  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary,  while  preaching  regularly  to  vacant 
churches. 

He  married,  in  1833,  Mary  Gray  don,  of  Harrisburg,  who 
died  in  1834. 

In  October,  1833,  he  was  appointed  Instructor  in  Hebrew 
for  one  year  in  Princeton  Seminary,  during  the  absence  of 
Professor-elect  Joseph  Addison  Alexander  in  Europe. 

In  1834  he  went  to  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  after 
serving  as  stated  supply  for  the  Congregational  Church  in 
Stanstead  for  a  year,  labored  with  success  in  Melbourne, 
some  forty  miles  to  the  northwards,  for  three  or  four  years. 

In  March,  1840,  he  married  Julia  Ann,  the  youngest 
daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Joel  Hayes  (Yale  1773),  of  South 
Hadley,  Massachusetts;  and  on  July  7  he  was  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Hardwick,  Cale- 
donia County,  Vermont.  He  was  dismissed  at  his  own 
request  from  this  charge  on  May  i,  1843,  but  resided  there 
until  1845,  when  he  began  to  supply  statedly  the  church 
in  Barnet  in  the  same  county. 

In  1 85 1  impaired  health  prevented  longer  continuous 
service;  but  he  was  otherwise  employed  as  town  clerk, 
county  superintendent  of  schools,  etc.,  and  as  teacher 
and  as  occasional  preacher.  In  1854  he  undertook  the 
charge  of  the  church  in  Craftsbury,  about  ten  miles  north 
of  Hardwick,  where  he  labored  for  nearly  three  years 
longer. 

His  wife  died  in  Barnet  on  August  7,  1857,  in  her  57th 
year;    and  after  long  suffering   from   disease  and  hypo- 


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chondria,  he  finally  became  insane  and  was  taken  to  the 
Insane  Retreat  in  Brattleboro,  where  he  died  on  August  24, 
1858,  at  the  age  of  58. 

Jonathan  Trumbull  Hudson,  son  of  Henry  Hudson, 
was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  on  October  21,  1805, 
and  bore  the  name  of  his  maternal  grandfather,  the  second 
Governor  Trumbull,  being  the  only  child  of  Maria  (Trum- 
bull) Hudson,  who  was  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  Professor 
Benjamin  Silliman  (Yale  1796). 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  City,  and  practiced  there 
from  1827.  In  1831  he  removed  to  Alton,  Illinois,  where 
besides  his  professional  business  he  edited  a  political  paper. 
He  was  lacking,  however,  in  steadiness,  and  about  1840  he 
returned  to  Connecticut,  and  subsequently  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  supported  himself  by  translating  and  by 
contributing  to  the  periodical  press. 

In  June,  1852,  he  went  to  Baltimore  to  report  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Whig  Convention  for  the  Presidential  nomina- 
tion, and  died  suddenly  at  Washington,  on  June  28,  in  his 
47th  year.  He  had  for  years  suffered  extremely  from  gout, 
and  the  disease  had  now  reached  a  vital  part. 

He  first  married  a  Miss  Gale,  who  died  early.  A  second 
wife  survived  him,  but  no  children. 

William  Edward  Hulbert,  son  of  Edward  and  Martha 
Hulbert,  of  Middletown,  Connecticut,  and  a  grandson  of 
the  Rev.  Enoch  Huntington  (Yale  1759),  was  born  on 
October  18,  1802. 

He  was  occupied  through  his  life  as  bookkeeper  or  teller 
in  a  bank  in  Middletown,  where  he  died  on  September 
19,  1845.  at  the  age  of  43. 

He  married  in  1833  his  first  cousin,  Mary  Gray,  younger 
daughter  of  Enoch  Huntington  (Yale  1785),  of  Middletown, 
who  died  in  1858. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 824  I  29 

Their  children  were  two  sons,  the  elder  of  whom  was 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1857. 

Matthew  Ives,  son  of  Matthew  and  Rhoda  (Root)  Ives, 
of  Otis,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  August  6,  1804.  In 
his  childhood  the  family  removed  to  Westfield,  whence  he 
entered  Yale  in  1821. 

He  studied  law  in  Westfield,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1827,  but  gave  attention  to  politics,  instead  of  engaging 
in  his  profession. 

He  was  Postmaster  of  the  town  for  sixteen  years,  under 
Jackson,  VanBuren,  and  Polk  (1829-41,  1845-49),  and  for 
three  years  a  Representative  in  the  General  Court,  and  for 
one  year  (1840)  a  State  Senator, 

He  died  in  Westfield  on  April  24,  1855,  in  his  51st  year. 

He  married,  in  1828,  Nancy  A.,  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
Moseley,  of  Westfield,  who  was  deranged  for  many  years 
before  her  death. 

Their  children  were  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  of 
whom  only  two  daughters  survived  him. 

James  Lewis,  the  fourth  son  of  Selah  and  Alary  (Carter) 
Lewis,  of  Southington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  August 
5,  1800. 

He  was  employed  for  about  four  years  at  West  Point, 
as  a  teacher,  in  a  school  attended  chiefly  by  the  children  of 
the  officers  of  the  Military  Academy.  He  excelled  in  botany 
and  in  mathematics,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  intend- 
ing to  return  to  his  native  town,  to  establish  an  academy  of 
high  grade. 

He  died  at  West  Point,  of  lung  fever,  on  November  7, 
1830,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  married  Sophia,  eldest  child  of  Asahel  and  Martha 
(Pond)  Clark,  of  Southington,  who  survived  him. 

Their  children  were  two  daughters  and  one  son. 


130  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Charles  Lewis  Mills,  son  of  Elisha  and  Catharine 
(Lewis)  Mills,  of  Huntington  and  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
was  born  in  Huntington  about  1803. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  merchant  in  Fairfield,  until 
his  removal  in  1836  to  Corning,  Steuben  County,  New  York, 
where  he  was  also  in  mercantile  business.  He  died  in 
Corning,  from  a  tumor  on  the  brain,  on  May  27,  1845,  ^t  the 
age  of  42. 

He  married,  in  183 1,  Maria  Ann,  eldest  child  of  Alexander 
Cyrus  and  Anna  (Sayles)  Kellogg,  of  Troy,  New  York,  by 
whom  he  had  two  daughters  and  three  sons. 

She  next  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joshua  Bascom  Graves,  of 
Corning,  and  died  there  on  June  19,  1872,  in  her  62d  year. 

George  Nichols^  son  of  James  Nichols,  of  Reading,  Mas- 
sachusetts, was  born  on  April  14,  1795.  Two  brothers,  who 
became  ministers,  were  graduated  at  Williams  College,  in 
1827  and  1828,  respectively. 

From  1824  to  1827  he  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  for  part  of  the  time  Rector  of  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School,  New  Haven. 

He  was  next  a  teacher  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  and 
while  there  married,  on  August  22,  1828,  Dolly,  daughter  of 
Captain  Robert  and  Betsey  (Harrington)  Blair,  of 
Worcester. 

In  October,  1832,  a  new  Congregational  Church  was 
organized  in  Chicopee  Falls,  and  he  supplied  the  pulpit, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society,  until 
the  beginning  of  1835.  He  then  preached  for  a  short  time 
in  Southwick. 

For  the  rest  of  his  life  he  was  a  teacher  in  Springfield, 
where  he  died  on  February  18,  1841,  in  his  46th  year.  He 
left  no  children. 

His  widow  married,  in  1843.  the  Rev.  Isaac  Knapp  (Wil- 
liams 1800),  of  Westfield,  and  died  in  Worcester  on  March 
I,  1864,  in  her  70th  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 824  131 

Burr  Noyes,  the  youngest  child  of  the  Rev.  John  Noyes 
(Yale  1779) »  of  Norfield  Parish,  in  Fairfield,  now  Weston, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  August  31,  1803. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1827.  In  the  meantime  he  had  served  for  one  winter  ( 1825- 
26)  as  Assistant  in  Chemistry  to  Professor  Silliman,  who 
was  a  half-brother  of  his  father. 

In  the  spring  of  1827  he  settled  for  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Chester,  then  part  of  Saybrook,  and  in  1828 
married  a  Miss  Brush,  who  died  about  three  months  later. 

He  died,  of  quick  consumption,  on  July  3,  1830,  in  his 
27th  year. 

George  William  Perkins,  the  youngest  child  of  the  Hon. 
Enoch  Perkins  (Yale  1781),  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  February  22,  1804. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  Cambridgeport, 
Massachusetts,  and  then  pursued  the  study  of  law  for  a  year 
in  New  York  City.  In  1826  he  entered  the  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  after  two  years  there  completed  his 
course  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  On  December  16,  1828, 
he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East 
Association. 

In  the  fall  of  1829  he  became  acting  pastor  of  the  Ameri- 
can Presbyterian  Church  in  Montreal,  Canada,  and  he  was 
regularly  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  on  May  30,  1830. 
In  1 83 1  he  married  Mary  Ann  Moseley,  elder  daughter  of 
Horace  and  Mary  Ann  (Taylor)  Dickinson,  of  Montreal. 
His  health  failed  so  that  he  had  to  stop  preaching  in  May, 
1838,  and  he  spent  the  following  winter  in  Santa  Cruz.  In 
the  summer  of  1839  he  was  dismissed  from  his  pastoral 
charge. 

On  May  19,  1841,  he  was  installed  over  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Meriden,  Connecticut,  where  he  had 
begun  to  preach  early  in  the  year,  and  where  he  remained 


132  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

for  thirteen  years.  His  wife  died  in  Meriden,  on  June  23, 
185 1,  in  her  43d  year. 

Early  in  1848  a  division  took  place  in  the  church,  with 
the  result  that  a  portion  of  the  membership,  with  their 
pastor,  removed  to  West  Meriden  and  built  a  new  house  of 
worship. 

In  the  beginning  of  his  pastorate  he  declined  the  offer  of 
the  presidency  of  Wabash  College,  Indiana.  He  sailed  for 
Europe  in  July,  1853,  and  returned  in  November. 

He  resigned  in  July,  1854,  to  accept  a  call  from  the  First 
Congregational  Church  in  Chicago,  which  he  began  to 
supply  in  September,  and  over  which  he  was  installed  early 
in  1855.  He  was  also  the  editor  of  the  Congregational 
Herald,  and  a  director  in  the  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary. 

He  died  suddenly  in  Chicago,  from  inflammation  of  the 
bowels,  on  November  13,  1856,  in  his  53d  year,  and  was 
buried  in  West  Meriden. 

He  had  married,  shortly  before  his  visit  to  Europe,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Josiah  Bissell,  of  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  and 
widow  of  William  Mumford,  of  Rochester,  New  York,  who 
survived  him  for  three  or  four  years. 

His  children,  by  his  first  marriage,  were  two  daughters, 
who  survived  him,  besides  a  son  who  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Perkins  was  signally  frank  and  fearless  in  his  utter- 
ances, and  earnest  in  his  efforts.  He  was  especially  pro- 
nounced in  his  attitude  towards  slavery. 

A  volume  of  his  sermons  was  published  after  his  death, 
with  a  Memoir  by  his  brother-in-law,  the  Rev.  James  T. 
Dickinson  (Yale  1826). 

Samuel  Perry  was  sent  to  College  in  1821  from  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  by  some  benevolent  ladies  who  had 
become  interested  in  forwarding  his  desire  to  be  a  minister. 
He  was  not  a  native  of  Westfield. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 824  1 33 

He  Studied  theology,  and  in  1828-29  was  preaching  in 
Bakersfield,  Vermont;  and  in  the  meantime,  in  January. 
1829,  received  ordination  at  Georgia,  Vermont.  He  is  also 
said  to  have  preached  in  Canada. 

In  1832-34  he  was  supplying  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Eden,  Erie  County,  New  York,  under  a  commission  from 
the  American  Home  Missionary  Society. 

He  married,  on  September  19,  1826,  Laura,  younger 
daughter  of  Russell  and  Sophia  (Chapin)  Dewey,  of  West- 
field,  who  died  in  Lisbon,  Kendall  County,  Illinois,  on  July 
6,  1844,  in  her  54th  year.     They  had  no  children. 

He  is  said  to  have  died  in  Dundee,  Kane  County,  Illinois, 
thirty  miles  northeast  of  Chicago,  in  January,  1847;  but  no 
trace  of  his  grave  is  found  there. 

Mason  Fitch  Sanford,  the  second  son  of  Levi  and  Abi- 
gail Alice  (Fitch)  Sanford,  of  Weston,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  October  4,  1803. 

At  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Medical  School,  where 
he  received  his  degree  in  the  spring  of  1827. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Weston,  on  July  31,  1827,  in  his 
24th  year. 

Moses  Aaron  Sherwood  was  a  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary 
Sherwood,  of  Green's  Farms,  in  that  part  of  Fairfield  which 
is  now  Westport,  Connecticut. 

He  became  a  merchant  and  farmer  in  his  native  village, 
where  he  died  on  February  18,  1848,  aged  43  years. 

In  1838  he  was  one  of  the  representatives  of  Fairfield  in 
the  State  Legislature. 

He  married  Catharine  Yale,  third  daughter  of  Dr.  Eben- 
ezer  and  Anna  (Wood)  Cone,  of  Westbrook,  in  Saybrook, 
and  sister  of  Charles  C.  Cone  (M.D.  Yale  1847).  Two 
sons  and  two  daughters  survived  their  father;  two  other 
sons  died  in  infancy. 


134  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  widow  next  married  James  Spencer,  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  died  on  April  26,  1899,  in  her  91st  year. 

Theophilus  Smith,  son  of  Asa  Smith,  of  Halifax,  Ver- 
mont, just  north  of  the  Massachusetts  border,  and  grandson 
of  Captain  Elijah  and  Sibyl  (Worthington)  Smith,  of  Bel- 
chertown,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  February  17,  1800. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  tw^o  years  in  New  Canaan, 
Connecticut,  and  then  filled  for  two  years  a  tutorship  in  the 
College.  While  Tutor  he  also  read  law  with  Judge  David 
Daggett, — not  with  the  purpose  of  practicing  the  profession, 
but  for  its  help  in  the  ministry. 

He  then  spent  three  years  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East  Association 
on  August  10,  1830. 

He  declined  after  long  hesitation  an  attractive  call  from 
the  church  in  Norfolk,  and  accepted  one  from  the  church  in 
New  Canaan.  He  was  married,  on  June  27,  1831,  to  Han- 
nah Benedict,  only  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Bene- 
dict (Richards)  St.  John,  of  New  Canaan,  and  sister  of 
Samuel  St.  John  (Yale  1834).  Two  months  later,  on 
August  31,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
village  church. 

His  service  there  was  happy  and  eminently  useful.  He 
was  very  methodical  and  conscientious  in  his  work,  and 
genuinely  public-spirited.  In  1846  he  was  chosen  a  Fellow 
of  the  College,  and  in  1849  a  member  of  the  Prudential 
Committee  of  the  Corporation.  In  the  winter  of  1852- 
53  he  was  attacked  with  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  and 
while  on  his  return  from  a  visit  to  New  Hampshire  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health,  he  died  on  board  a  steamer  on  Lake 
George,  on  August  29,  1853,  in  his  54th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  New  Canaan  on  July  20,  1854,  in  her 
44th  year.  Of  their  seven  children,  two  daughters  and  four 
sons  survived  them. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 824  1 35 

Henry  Daniel  Sterling,  the  eldest  child  of  Captain 
Daniel  and  Hannah  (Judson)  Sterling,  of  Bridgeport,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  June  15,  1805. 

A  sister  married  Dr.  John  G.  Adams  (Yale  1826),  and  a 
brother  was  in  Freshman  year  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1839  at  Yale,  but  was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1840. 

After  a  few  years'  delay  he  began  the  study  of  law,  but 
before  completing  his  course,  died  in  Bridgeport  on  Feb- 
ruary 13  or  14,  1830,  in  his  25th  year.    He  was  unmarried. 

William  Hey  ward  Trapier  entered  Yale  in  1822  from 
his  father's  plantation,  some  four  or  five  miles  north  of 
Georgetown,  South  Carolina. 

He  spent  his  life  in  his  native  State,  as  a  planter.  After 
the  Civil  War  he  resided  in  Walhalla,  in  the  northwestern 
corner  of  South  Carolina. 

He  died  in  September,  1872,  in  his  69th  year. 

His  widow  was  living  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  in  1894. 

William  VanWyck,  son  of  Abraham  and  Zeruiah 
(VanWyck)  VanWyck,  of  West  Neck,  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  was  born  in  January,  1803. 

At  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law,  and  on  his 
admission  to  the  bar  in  1827  he  entered  on  practice  in  New 
York  City.  He  early  became  actively  interested  in  local  and 
national  politics  as  a  Jacksonian  Democrat,  and  filled  some 
important  positions.  He  was  one  of  the  Assistant  Aldermen 
from  1 83 1  to  1834,  and  President  of  the  Board  from  1832. 

On  October  22,  1833,  he  married  Lydia  Ann,  youngest 
daughter  of  Samuel  Maverick,  of  Pendleton,  South  Caro- 
hna,  and  sister  of  Samuel  A.  Maverick  (Yale  1825). 

He  was  obliged  to  give  up  practice  in  1837,  on  account  of 
impaired  health,  and  for  some  years  lived  at  the  South. 

In  1843  he  resumed  his  profession;  but  in  November, 
1849,  some  property  interests  seemed  to  require  his  removal 


136  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

to  South  Carolina,  where  he  spent  the.  rest  of  his  Hfe  as  a 
planter.  He  remained  in  sympathy  with  the  Union  during 
the  war. 

He  died  on  June  30,  1867,  in  his  65th  year.  Of  his 
seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  four  sons  and  a  daughter 
survived  him,  with  his  widow. 

Charles  Walker,  son  of  Silas  and  Dimmis  (Sexton) 
Walker,  of  Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  1S03. 

After  a  course  of  medical  study  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia 
in  1828. 

He  then  settled  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  in  the 
practice  of  medicine.  He  married,  in  1829,  Sarah  D wight, 
elder  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Esther  (Hunt)  Storrs,  of 
Northampton.  In  later  years  he  adopted  homoeopathy,  and 
also  practiced  dentistry. 

His  wife  died  in  Northampton  on  November  15,  1854, 
aged  46  years,  and  his  own  death  there  followed  on  January 
17,  1855,  in  his  52d  year.  Of  their  five  children,  three  sons 
and  a  daughter  survived  infancy. 

Spencer  Whiting,  Junior,  son  of  Spencer  Whiting,  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  1805,  and  entered  Yale 
in  182 1. 

He  studied  medicine,  in  part  in  the  Yale  Medical  School, 
and  in  part  in  the  School  in  Castleton,  Vermont,  where  he 
completed  the  course  in  1826,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D. 
(under  an  arrangement  then  existing)  from  the  Corporation 
of  Middlebury  College. 

As  a  student  he  had  worked  beyond  his  strength,  and 
just  after  attending  his  last  course  of  lectures  he  was  taken 
ill,  and  died  in  Castleton  on  December  29,  1826,  in  his  22d 
year.     He  was  buried  in  Hartford. 

CiiAUNCEY  Wilcox,  son  of  Deacon  Joseph  Russell  and 
Lina  (Foster)  Wilcox,  of  Cromwell,  then  part  of  Middle- 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1825  1 37 

town,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  September  6,  1796.  At  the 
age  of  16  he  was  prostrated  by  a  severe  disease  which  left 
him  lame  for  life.  At  this  time  he  became  a  Christian,  and 
determined  to  study  for  the  ministry. 

Upon  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School, 
where  he  spent  three  years. 

On  July  2,  1828,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor 
of  a  new  Congregational  Church  in  (North)  Greenwich, 
which  he  served  with  great  fidelity  and  built  up  to  a  success- 
ful condition. 

He  married,  on  November  6,  1828,  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Lucy  (Hills)  Baldwin,  of  Goshen,  and  widow  of 
Theron  S.  Ludington,  of  Goshen  (who  died  in  August, 
1817).  She  died  in  Greenwich,  in  September,  1830,  in  her 
45th  year.     Her  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

He  next  married,  in  December,  183 1,  Sarah  A.,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Joseph  Piatt  Cooke,  of  Danbury,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Colonel  Joseph  Piatt  Cooke  (Yale  1750). 

He  resigned  his  pastoral  charge  in  May,  1846,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1847  opened  in  Ridgefield  a  classical  boarding- 
school  for  boys,  in  which  he  was  usefully  employed  until 
his  very  sudden  death. 

He  attended  his  father's  funeral  in  Cromwell  on  the  28th 
of  January,  1852,  and  died  at  his  home,  three  days  later,  in 
his  56th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  daughters  and  two  sons. 
The  elder  son  was  graduated  here  in  1856. 


CLASS  OF    1825 

Ripley  Perkins  Adams,  the  third  son  of  John  Adams 
(Yale  1795),  was  born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  on  Jan- 
uary II,  1804.  In  1810  his  father  became  Principal  of 
Phillips  Academy  in  Andover,  Massachusetts.  He  entered 
Yale   in   1823,   but  took  a  dismission   from   the   Class   in 


138  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

November,  1824,  on  account  of  ill  health.  His  degree  was 
given  him  in  1837. 

He  was  employed  as  Preceptor  of  the  Academy  in  Lynn 
from  1825  to  1827  and  again  from  1832  to  1835. 

In  the  meantime  he  was  married,  in  1831,  to  Hannah  B. 
Tobey. 

Later  he  taught  in  Boston,  and  in  1837  he  went  South, 
where  the  rest  of  his  life  was  spent,  mainly  in  teaching; 
among  the  places  where  he  was  employed  were  Augusta, 
Athens,  Macon,  and  Milledg'eville,  all  in  Georgia. 

His  wife  died  in  1847. 

He  died  in  Reidville,  South  Carolina,  while  Principal  of 
the  High  School  there,  on  April  30,  1870,  in  his  67th  year. 
He  had  no  children. 

Abner  Pomeroy  Clark  was  born  in  Southampton, 
Massachusetts,  in  1797,  and  united  with  the  church  in  that 
place  in  1816. 

He  spent  the  two  years  after  graduation  in  the  Auburn 
(New  York)  Theological  Seminary,  and  in  1827  was 
ordained  and  installed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Cortland  as 
pastor  of  the  church  in  Preble,  Cortland  County,  where  he 
continued  until  1830. 

He  next  served  the  church  in  the  village  of  Ludlowville, 
in  Lansing  township,  Tompkins  County,  as  pastor,  until 
1833. 

He  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church  in  Augusta, 
Oneida  County,  on  September  13,  1833,  though  not  installed 
until  February  12,  1834.  He  was  an  excellent  pastor,  but 
a  few  months  after  his  installation  he  was  laid  aside  for 
some  time  by  a  broken  leg;  and  his  death  followed  soon 
after,  on  February  6,  1835,  in  his  38th  year. 

Isaac  Dubose,  the  youngest  son  of  Samuel  Dubose,  a 
planter  of  St.  Stephen's  Parish,  South  Carolina,  near  the 
Santee  River,  some  forty  miles  north  of  Charleston,  was 
born  in  1804.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1807.     He  was 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1825  139 

prepared  for  College  at  Pineville,  near  his  home,  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  B.  Snowden  (Yale  1804).  His  circumstances  were 
easy,  and  his  reputation  in  Yale  that  of  a  companionable 
fellow,  deserving  the  familiar  title  of  "Baron  Dubose." 

After  graduation  his  father's  plantation  came  under  his 
management,  and  he  lived  there  until  his  death. 

He  married,  in  April,  1827,  Marianne  Porcher,  of  St. 
Stephens,  who  was,  like  himself,  of  Huguenot  descent. 

He  was  seized  with  typhoid  pneumonia  in  February,  1832, 
while  visiting  in  Charleston,  and  died  there  on  March  5,  in 
his  28th  year.     He  was  buried  at  St.  Stephen's. 

His  widow  long  survived  him.  Their  only  child,  a  daugh- 
ter, left  descendants. 

Seabury  Ford  was  born  in  Prospect,  then  part  of 
Cheshire,  Connecticut,  on  October  15,  1801,  the  son  of  John 
and  Esther  (Cook)  Ford.  In  1807  the  family  removed 
to  Burton,  in  the  Connecticut  Western  Reserve  of  Ohio. 

He  studied  law  with  his  uncle  by  marriage,  Judge  Peter 
Hitchcock  (Yale  1801),  of  Burton,  who  was  also  an  emi- 
grant from  Cheshire ;  and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in 
August,  1828,  he  began  practice  in  Burton. 

On  September  10,  1828,  he  married  Harriet  E.,  daughter 
of  John  and  Meroa  (Smith)  Cook,  of  Burton,  originally 
from  Cheshire. 

In  1832  he  was  elected  Major-General  of  the  militia.  He 
was  an  ardent  Whig,  and  a  warm  friend  of  Henry  Clay. 

From  1835  to  1840  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  House 
of  Representatives,  and  during  the  session  of  1840  was 
Speaker. 

In  1841  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and  served  for 
the  constitutional  term  of  two  years.  After  another  term 
(1844)  in  the  lower  House,  he  was  again  sent  to  the  Senate 
and  was  chosen  Speaker  for  that  term  (1845-46). 

In  1847  he  was  elected  Governor  of  the  State,  and  served 
for  1848-49. 


I40  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  January,  1850,  he  suffered  a  severe  attack  of  paralysis, 
from  the  effects  of  which  he  died,  in  Burton,  on  May  8, 
1855,  in  his  54th  year. 

He  had  four  sons,  three  of  whom  survived  him. 

William  Mayo  Fulton,  son  of  Alexander  Fulton,  a 
native  of  Scotland,  who  died  in  1823,  was  born  in  Richmond, 
Virginia,  in  January,  1804,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening 
of  Sophomore  year.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Bland 
Mayo,  a  granddaughter  of  Richard  Bland,  a  distinguished 
statesman  of  Virginia  before  the  revolution. 

He  returned  to  Richmond,  and  pursued  the  study  and 
practice  of  the  law  until  October,  1836,  when  he  enlisted  in 
the  United  States  Army  as  Captain  of  the  Second  Dragoons. 
He  was  at  first  stationed  in  Florida,  and  later  at  Fort 
Jesup,  Louisiana,  and  finally  (1845)  ^t  Corpus  Christi, 
Texas. 

He  resigned  his  commission  in  March,  1846,  and  after  a 
few  months'  interval  returned  to  Richmond  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  died  in  Richmond  on  June 
28,  1853,  i"  his  50th  year. 

He  married  Cornelia  Patton,  of  New  Orleans,  by  whom 
he  had  four  sons,  all  of  whom  died  unmarried.  His  widow 
died  in  i' 


William  Rutherford  Hayes,  the  youngest  son  of  Ruth- 
erford and  Chloe  (Smith)  Hayes,  of  Brattleboro,  Vermont, 
was  born  in  Brattleboro  on  December  6,  1804.  President 
Hayes  was  his  nephew,  as  was  also  Horatio  S.  Noyes  (Yale 

1835). 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Brattleboro,  and  married,  on  Octo- 
ber II,  1830,  Harriet  Emily,  second  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Harriet  (Hayes)  Trowbridge,  of  New  Haven,  her  mother 
being  his  first  cousin. 

After  a  number  of  years  of  successful  practice  at  the  bar, 
he  had  determined  to  abandon  his  profession  and  become 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 825  141 

a  minister,  when  his  father-in-law,  who  had  extensive  mer- 
cantile connections  with  the  West  Indies,  persuaded  him,  on 
the  ground  of  his  health,  to  establish  himself  in  business  on 
the  island  of  Barbadoes. 

He  was  eminently  successful  as  a  merchant,  amassing  a 
fortune,  and  securing  the  highest  esteem  of  the  community. 

He  was  appointed  by  President  Harrison,  in  1841,  United 
States  Consul  and  held  office  until  removed  by  President 
Polk,  but  was  reappointed  by  President  Taylor  in  1849. 

In  1852  he  had  sent  in  his  resignation  of  his  office,  to 
take  effect  on  October  i,  and  was  intending  to  return  to 
the  United  States,  but  he  died  at  his  residence  in  Bridge- 
town, after  four  days'  illness,  on  July  13,  in  his  48th  year. 

He  had  no  children. 

His  widow  married,  on  April  12,  1863,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
William  Patton  (Middlebury  Coll.  1818),  of  New  Haven, 
and  died  in  New  Haven  on  January  22,  1874,  in  her  66th 
year. 

Jabez  Brooks  Hubbard,  the  second  son  of  Captain  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (Brooks)  Hubbard,  of  Middletown,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  March  15,  1805. 

He  became  a  commission  merchant  in  New  York  City, 
but  later  in  life  was  employed  as  an  accountant. 

His  residence  was  in  Brooklyn,  where  he  died  on  June 
12,  1856,  in  his  52d  year. 

He  married,  on  April  22,  1835,  Emily,  eldest  daughter  of 
Lebbeus  and  Catharine  Chapman,  of  Brooklyn. 

Their  children  were  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Algernon  Sidney  Kennedy  entered  College  from  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  at  the  opening  of  the  Sophomore  year. 
He  was  working  as  a  mechanic,  when  he  was  converted  in 
the  summer  of  1819,  and  was  fired  with  the  ambition  of 
preaching  the  gospel. 


142  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  Studied  theology  privately,  and  was  licensed  to  preach. 
Owing  to  poor  health,  however,  he  was  never  able  to  preach 
regularly. 

He  died  in  Hartford,  from  a  lingering  consumption,  on 
June  26,  1841,  in  his  39th  year. 

Charles  Octavius  Livingston,  son  of  John  R.  and  Eliza 
(McEvers)  Livingston,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  in 
1804.  He  was  a  nephew  of  the  distinguished  statesman, 
Edward  Livingston.  A  sister  married  Rawlins  Lowndes 
Brown  (Yale  1806). 

After  a  course  of  medical  study  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1829. 

He  began  practice  in  New  York  City,  but  died  soon, 
probably  in  the  spring  of  1832,  as  letters  of  administration 
on  his  estate  were  issued  on  May  18  to  his  father. 

He  was  unmarried. 

John  Charles  March  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  October  9,  1805,  the  only  child  of  Captain  John 
and  Ann  March.  His  father  died  in  1818,  and  his  mother 
in  1821. 

He  entered  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  1826  and 
was  graduated  in  1829,  having  been  licensed  to  preach  by 
the  Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick  on  October  8,  1828. 

He  was  ordained  on  March  i,  1832,  as  associate  pastor 
with  the  Rev.  James  Miltimore  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1774)  of 
the  Belleville  Congregational  Church  in  his  native  place. 
The  senior  pastor  died  in  March,  1836,  and  Mr.  March  con- 
tinued in  service  until  his  death,  in  Newbury,  after  a  linger- 
ing illness,  on  September  26,  1846,  at  the  age  of  41. 

He  married  in  Newbury,  on  April  23,  1832,  Alice  Little, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Alice  (Little)  Hale. 

Zechariah  Mead,  the  eldest  child  of  Jonathan  and  Han- 
nah (Lyon)  Mead,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
March   11,   1801,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1825  143 

Junior  year.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  Dr.  Darius  Mead 
(Yale  1807). 

He  spent  the  three  years  succeeding  graduation  in  the 
Yale  Divinity  School,  being  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New 
Haven  East  Association  on  August  28,  1827. 

At  a  later  date  he  attended  the  Episcopal  Theological 
Seminary  in  Virginia,  and  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders 
by  Bishop  Meade  on  February  15,  1830. 

He  then  supplied  several  parishes  in  Albemarle  County, 
Virginia,  was  rector  of  Grace  Church,  Boston,  for  one  year 
(1834-35),  and  officiated  in  St.  Stephen's  Church,  New 
York  City,  for  the  following  year. 

Returning  to  Virginia,  he  was  ordained  Priest,  at  Norfolk, 
on  May  22,  1837,  and  the  same  year  became  the  editor  and 
proprietor  of  the  Southern  Churchman,  in  Richmond. 

In  this  occupation  he  continued  until  his  death,  in  that 
city,  after  a  severe  illness  of  eight  weeks,  on  November 
27,  1840,  in  his  41st  year. 

He  married  in  Boston,  on  February  25,  1835,  Anna  Maria, 
daughter  of  Captain  Harris  Hampden  Hickman,  U.  S. 
Army,  and  Ann  Binney  Hickman,  and  granddaughter  of 
General  William  Hull   (Yale  1772). 

His  children  were  three  sons. 

Ebenezer  Parker,  Junior,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sally 
(Tarbell)  Parker,  of  Boston,  was  born  on  September  17, 
1806.  His  father  died  after  he  entered  College.  A  brother 
was  graduated  here  in  1827. 

He  was  graduated  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1829, 
and  also  studied  in  Paris  under  the  famous  surgeon.  Baron 
Dupuytren. 

He  began  practice  in  Boston,  but  died  there,  from  con- 
sumption, on  November  6,  1833,  in  his  28th  year. 

Amos  Pettingell,  second  son  of  Deacon  Amos  and 
Joanna  (Haskell)  Pettingell,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massa- 


144  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

chusetts,  on  October  20,  1804.  His  scholarship  in  College 
was  distinguished,  and  he  delivered  the  Latin  Salutatory 
Oration  at  graduation. 

He  returned  to  College  as  Tutor  in  the  fall  of  1827,  and 
in  connection  with  his  tutorial  duties  pursued  law  studies. 
In  the  spring  of  1831,  in  consequence  of  the  development  of 
a  more  active  religious  life,  he  abandoned  the  intention  of 
entering  the  legal  profession,  and  at  the  ensuing  Commence- 
ment he  resigned  his  tutorship,  to  begin  theological  studies. 
He  had  recently  entered  the  Middle  class  in  the  Divinity 
School  when  he  was  prostrated  with  disease,  and  he  died 
in  New  Haven  on  November  30,  1831,  in  his  28th  year.  He 
was  buried  in  the  College  lot  in  the  New  Haven  cemetery. 
His  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 

Henry  Augustus  Raymond,  the  son  of  Clapp  and  Sarah 
(Dunning)  Raymond,  was  born  in  Patterson,  Putnam 
County,  New  York,  on  June  10,  1804.  During  his  College 
course  the  family  residence  was  in  Poughkeepsie. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  of 
the  Reformed  Church  in  America,  at  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  took  the  full  course  of  three  years. 

In  1828  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Classis  of  Pough- 
keepsie, and  on  January  7,  1829,  he  was  ordained  and 
installed  as  pastor  of  three  small  Reformed  churches  in 
Schoharie  County.  On  September  11,  1828,  he  married 
Susan  P.,  daughter  of  Squire  Martin,  of  New  Brunswick, 
who  died  on  July  15,  1829. 

In  1833  he  took  charge  of  the  church  in  Fairfield,  Herki- 
mer County,  and  was  married  on  July  10,  1834,  to  Catharine 
Maria  Miller,  of  Little  Falls,  New  Jersey. 

In  1836  he  began  a  long,  prosperous,  and  very  successful 
ministry  of  nearly  fourteen  years  in  Niskayuna,  Schenectady 
County,  which  was  succeeded  by  briefer  settlements  in  other 
country  parishes,  in  Cayuga,  Orange,  Schoharie  and  Albany 
counties,  until  his  retirement  on  account  of  growing  infirmi- 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 825  1 45 

ties  in  1871.  He  then  went  to  Schenectady  to  Hve  while 
his  youngest  son  was  attending  Union  College.  Later,  he 
went  to  live  with  his  only  surviving  daughter  in  Cohoes, 
where  he  died  on  July  i8,  1877,  at  the  age  of  y2)- 

In  each  of  his  widespread  and  populous  charges  he  was 
a  most  faithful  and  indefatigable  pastor,  abundant  in  minis- 
terial labor,  diligent  and  sympathetic  in  the  care  of  his 
flock,  and  seeing  his  work  crowned  with  success. 

His  children  were  four  daughters  and  six  sons.  The 
youngest  son  was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1871,  and 
was  subsequently  President  of  that  institution. 

Charles  Bowler  Sherman,  son  of  Dr.  Abel  and  Martha 
Sherman,  was  born  in  Herkimer,  New  York,  in  1799,  and 
entered  College  from  Albany,  where  his  widowed  mother 
was  living. 

His  life  was  mainly  given  to  teaching,  and  he  had  resided 
in  Herkimer,  Utica,  Albany,  and  New  York  City,  before 
settling  in  Boston,  where  he  married,  on  August  14,  1845, 
Sarah  C,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  John  P.  Rice  (Yale  1809). 

He  lived  the  quiet  life  of  a  cultivated,  well-read  gentle- 
man, and  died  in  Boston  on  December  29,  1868,  aged  69 
years. 

His  widow  died  on  December  22,  1909.  They  had  seven 
children,  of  whom  six  died  without  issue.  A  son  is  still 
living. 

John  Adams  Taft  was  bom  in  Montague,  Franklin 
County,  Massachusetts,  in  1800. 

He  died  in  East  Hartford,  Connecticut,  about  the  middle 
of  May,  1832,  at  the  age  of  32,  and  in  the  notice  of  his 
death  is  described  as  "late  from  New  Orleans." 

Edward  Royall  Tyler,  the  fourth  of  eleven  children  of 
Judge  Royall  Tyler  (Harvard  1776)  and  Mary  (Palmer) 
Tyler,  of  Guilford,  near  Brattleboro,  Vermont,  was  born  in 


146  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Guilford  on  August  3,  1800.  Two  brothers  were  graduated 
here,  in  1829  and  1836,  respectively.  In  his  infancy  the 
family  removed  to  Brattleboro.  While  employed  as  a  clerk 
in  New  York  City,  he  became  a  Christian,  and  was  thus 
led  to  prepare  for  College.  At  Yale  he  was  eminent  for 
scholarship. 

For  a  few  months  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Cam- 
bridgeport,  Massachusetts,  and  having  begun  to  read  theol- 
ogy he  went  to  Andover  for  further  study,  though  not  con- 
necting himself  with  the  Seminary  there.  Later  in  1826  he 
joined  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  on  December  27,  1827, 
he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  South  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Middletown,  Connecticut.  His  work 
here  was  important  and  powerful,  but  was  soon  terminated 
by  the  failure  of  his  health,  which  led  to  his  resignation  in 
April,  1832. 

He  recovered  sufficiently  to  accept  a  call  to  Colebrook, 
where  he  was  installed  on  March  6,  1833 ;  but  there  also 
his  health  gave  way,  and  his  dismission  followed  on  June 
14,  1836. 

He  had  already  become  deeply  interested  in  questions 
relating  to  slavery,  and  he  now  spent  a  year  as  Agent  of 
the  American  Anti- Slavery  Society. 

Near  the  close  of  the  year  1837  he  made  an  engagement 
to  edit  the  Connecticut  Observer,  a  weekly  religious  news- 
paper in  Hartford.  His  plans  were  delayed  by  a  severe 
illness,  from  gout,  in  December ;  but  he  began  his  work  in 
January,  1838,  before  he  was  really  able  to  do  so,  and  the 
results  of  overexertion  crippled  all  his  efforts  until  he 
wound  up  the  affairs  of  the  paper  in  May,  1842.  In  1839- 
40  he  supplied  regularly  the  Colored  Congregational  Church 
in  Hartford. 

He  then  removed  to  New  Haven,  to  become  the  proprie- 
tor and  principal  editor  of  the  Nczv  Englander,  a  quarterly 
magazine  of  high  character,  controlled  by  a  group  of  College 
officers.     He  continued  in  this  position  from  January,  1843, 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1826  1 47 

until  his  sudden  death,  in  New  Haven,  on  September  28, 
1848,  in  his  49th  year. 

He  first  married,  in  Andover,  in  May,  1828,  Anna,  eldest 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Professor  James  Murdock  (Yale 
1797),  who  died,  after  long  illness,  at  her  father's  house  in 
New  Haven,  in  June,  1830,  aged  22  years. 

He  married,  in  Middletown,  on  July  10,  183 1,  Sarah  Ann, 
eldest  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  and  Anna  (Meigs) 
Boardman,  of  Middletown,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters 
and  four  sons.  One  son  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1864, 
and  died  suddenly  in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  in 
1891.  His  mother,  who  made  her  home  with  him,  died  of 
grief  a  few  days  later,  on  April  4,  in  her  85th  year. 


CLASS   OF    1826 

William  Henry  Bogart,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
David  Schuyler  Bogart  (Columbia  Coll.  1790)  and  Elizabeth 
(Piatt)  Bogart,  of  Southampton,  Long  Island,  was  born  in 
1801.  His  father  removed  to  Hempstead  Harbor  in  1813. 
He  spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  course  in  Columbia 
College. 

He  was  a  man  of  versatile  intellect  and  highly  accom- 
plished. He  had  not  completed  any  course  of  professional 
study  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  New  York  City  (to  which 
his  father  had  removed  in  1826),  on  July  2S,  1836,  at  the 
age  of  35.     He  was  never  married. 

Frederick  Bridgman,  the  eldest  rhild  of  Joseph  Bridg- 
man  (Dartmouth  Coll.  179S),  a  lawyer,  of  Belchertown, 
Massachusetts,  and  of  Ruth  (Hawkes)  Bridgman,  was  born 
on  March  26,  1804,  and  spent  the  first  year  of  his  College 
course  in  Amherst  College. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  David  Hunt,  M.D. 
(honorary  Yale  1818),  of  Northampton,  and  completed  his 


148  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

course  in  Boston,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Har- 
vard University  in  1830. 

He  settled  soon  after  in  practice  in  Macon,  Georgia, 
whence  he  removed  in  1840  to  Tuskegee,  Alabama.  In 
July,  1840,  he  married,  in  Tuskegee,  Lovina,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Ebenezer  Jennings  (Williams  Coll.  1800)  and  Lovina 
(Cady)  Jennings,  of  Dalton,  Massachusetts.  She  was  at 
the  time  a  teacher  in  the  South. 

He  was  highly  esteemed  in  Tuskegee,  where  he  died  on 
July  29,  1850,  in  his  47th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  New  York  City  on  January  13,  1871, 
in  her  53d  year.     Three  sons  survived  him. 

Jesse  Bronson,  the  third  son  of  Bennet  Bronson  (Yale 
1797)  and  Anna  (Smith)  Bronson,  of  Waterbury,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  on  February  8,  1806. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Samuel  B.  Wood- 
ward, M.D.  (honorary  Yale  1822),  of  Wethersfield,  and 
continued  it  with  his  brother.  Dr.  Henry  Woodward,  of 
West  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He  also  attended  two 
courses  of  lectures  in  the  Yale  Medical  School  (1827-29), 
and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  here  in  1829. 

He  soon  after  settled  as  a  physician  in  North  Haven; 
but  his  practice  was  at  first  limited,  and  he  had  leisure  to 
teach  a  few  scholars  in  the  classics.  At  length  his  health, 
which  had  been  delicate  for  years,  began  to  give  way.  He 
returned  to  his  father's  house  in  Waterbury,  and  died  of 
consumption  on  April  14,  1831,  in  his  26th  year.  He  was 
never  married. 

Thaddeus  Brown,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Foster) 
Brown,  of  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  October 
27,   1803. 

After  graduation  he  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Amos 
Twitchell  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1802),  of  Keene,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  also  with  Dr.  John  Green  (Brown  Univ.  1804), 
of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  and  Dr.  George  C.  Shattuck 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 826  1 49 

(Dartmouth  Coll.  1803),  of  Boston,  and  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  from  Harvard  University  in  1830. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Billerica,  where 
he  married,  on  November  i,  1832,  Susan,  daughter  of  Josiah 
and  Betsey  (Hartwell)  Crosby.  He  was  greatly  beloved 
and  esteemed,  but  was  cut  off  by  death  on  September  2^^, 
or  28,  1839,  in  his  36th  year. 

His  widow  died,  of  consumption,  on  June  28,  1845,  in  her 
37th  year. 

Of  their  two  sons,  the  elder  died  in  infancy,  and  the 
younger  was  graduated  here  in  i860. 

James  Dyer  Chapman,  son  of  James  Dyer  and  Tryphosa 
(Huntington)  Chapman,  of  Columbia,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  May,  1799.  He  had  worked  for  several  years  at 
the  trade  of  harness-making,  before  preparing  for  College 
in  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He  entered  Yale  as  a 
Sophomore  in  1823,  having  spent  one  year  in  Harvard 
College. 

After  graduation  he  spent  three  years  as  the  Principal  of 
Morris  Academy,  in  Litchfield,  where  he  married,  on  August 
31,  1828,  Abby  Jane  Smith,  a  native  of  Danbury. 

In  1829  he  settled  in  New  Haven,  being  associated  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Amos  Smith,  in  conducting  a  classical 
school.  He  also  studied  in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary 
from  1830  to  1833,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New 
Haven  West  Association  on  August  i,  1832. 

For  a  year  from  September,  1832,  he  supplied  the  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Prospect,  and  after  preaching  for 
shorter  periods  elsewhere  in  the  vicinity,  he  w^s  called,  in 
September,  1837,  to  the  pastorate  of  the  feeble  church  in 
Wolcott.  He  was  ordained  and  installed  there  on  October 
25,  and  continued  until  dismissed  on  November  9,  1840. 
During  this  period  his  anti-slavery  sentiments  subjected  him 
to  persecution,  reproach,  and  loss  of  property,  in  this 
strongly  Democratic  community. 


150  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

On  June  12,  1844,  he  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Cummington,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
remained  until  his  death  there,  on  December  19,  1854,  in 
his  56th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him.  They  had  ten  children,  three  of 
whom  died  in  infancy. 

Ebenezer  Church,  son  of  Isaac  and  Esther  (Marvin) 
Church,  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  i, 
1800,  and  entered  the  Junior  class  at  Yale  in  June,  1825. 
He  was  then  intending  to  become  an  Episcopal  clergyman, 
but  was  obliged  to  abandon  this  purpose  on  account  of 
some  difficulty  in  his  speech. 

After  graduation  he  engaged  in  teaching  in  Norwalk, 
until  his  death  there,  in  1833,  at  his  father's  house,  in  his 
33d  year. 

Frederick  Tyler  Cone,  son  of  Joshua  and  Sally  (Ram- 
sey) Cone,  of  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  10,  1803.  Two  half-brothers  were  graduated 
here,  in  1818  and  1820,  respectively.  He  entered  Yale  with 
the  Class  of  1824,  and  left  College  in  Junior  year  on 
account  of  ill-health,  returning  two  years  later  to  the  Class 
of  1826. 

He  died,  unmarried,  on  October  30,  1834,  at  the  age  of  31. 

Jefferson  Cooley,  son  of  Philetus  and  Polly  (Hinman) 
Cooley,  of  Granby,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  September 
15,  1800. 

For  ten  years  after  graduation  he  taught  a  public  school 
in  Granby.  In  the  meantime  (1829-32)  he  pursued  the 
study  of  law  under  the  direction  of  Jared  Griswold  (Yale 
1817),  of  Hartford,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  though 
he  never  engaged  in  practice.  In  1836  he  became  Preceptor 
of  the  Academy  in  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  and  a  year 
later  Principal  of  the  Academy  in  Sharon,  Connecticut. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1826  151 

In  1838  he  resumed  teaching  in  Granby,  and  was  thus 
occupied  until  his  strength  failed. 

He  died  in  Granby,  of  consumption,  unmarried,  on 
December  20,  1840,  in  his  41st  year. 

Elijah  Cowles,  son  of  Gad  and  Anna  (Deming) 
Cowles,  of  Farmington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  February 
10,  1808. 

His  life  was  mainly  spent  in  mercantile  pursuits.  He  was 
for  several  years  in  business  in  Farmington,  and  then 
removed  to  Sandusky,  Ohio.  In  a  few  years  he  returned  to 
Farmington,  and  about  1849  established  himself  in  business 
in  Syracuse,  New  York,  where  he  continued  until  November, 
1856,  when  he  made  a  final  removal  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
where  he  died  with  extreme  suddenness,  from  rupture  of 
the  aorta,  on  May  22,  1859,  ^"  his  52d  year.  He  was  a  noble, 
generous-hearted  man,  esteemed  and  lamented. 

He  married,  in  April,  1845,  Mary  D.  Lewis,  of  Northum- 
berland, Saratoga  County,  New  York,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons,  the  younger  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  She  died  in 
September,  1848,  at  the  age  of  26,  and  he  next  married, 
in  October,  1850,  Evelina  Beatrice  Robison,  of  Syracuse, 
who  survived  him,  with  one  of  their  two  daughters. 

ZiNA  Denison,  third  son  of  Captain  Abel  and  Mary 
(Wetmore)  Denison,  of  New  Haven,  and  nephew  of  Charles 
Denison  (Yale  1796),  was  born  on  March  17,  1807.  A 
sister  married  Dr.  John  B.  Robertson  (Yale  1829).  His 
father  died  in  February,  181 3. 

He  was  for  several  years  in  business  in  New  Haven. 

He  died  in  Peninsula,  Summit  County,  Ohio,  on  Novem- 
ber 4,  1852,  in  his  46th  year. 

William  Courtland  Dwight,  the  eldest  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Amy  (Parsons)  Dwight,  of  Belchertown,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  on  November  18,  1805. 


152  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  studied  law  with  Judge  Samuel  Howe  (Williams  Coll. 
1804),  of  Northampton,  and  began  practice  in  Springfield  in 
1829.  His  lungs,  however,  were  too  weak  to  endure  that 
climate,  and  in  1835  he  settled  in  Franklin,  in  southern 
Louisiana,  where  he  continued  to  practice  his  profession, 
until  his  death  there,  unmarried,  on  July  30,  185 1,  in  his 
46th  year. 

WiNTHROP  Earle,  son  of  Winthrop  and  Persis  (Bartlett) 
Earle,  was  born  in  Leicester,  Massachusetts,  on  April  5, 
1807.  His  father  died  in  October,  1807,  and  his  mother 
next  married,  in  November,  1808,  Alpheus  Smith,  of 
Leicester. 

He  was  in  feeble  health  during  his  entire  College  course ; 
and  when,  after  graduation,  he  attempted  to  teach,  for  a 
time  as  preceptor  of  an  academy  in  Dudley,  he  broke  down 
entirely,  and  died  of  consumption  in  Leicester  on  November 
10,  1828,  in  his  22d  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney  Gale,  son  of  Oilman 
and  Mary  (Wiggin)  Gale,  was  born  in  Kingston,  New 
Hampshire,  on  April  20,  1799.  He  was  prepared  for  Col- 
lege at  Phillips  Academy,  in  Exeter,  a  few  miles  from 
Kingston,  and  gave  that  as  his  residence  while  in  Yale. 

For  the  year  after  graduation  he  was  employed  as  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy  in  Phillips 
Academy,  and  was  then  for  nearly  ten  years  Principal  of  a 
Female  Seminary  in  Derry. 

He  then  made  arrangements  to  succeed  Ebenezer  Bailey 
(Yale  1817)  as  Principal  of  a  private  High  School  for 
Young  Ladies  in  Boston,  and  removed  thither  about  the 
first  of  February,  1838;  but  before  he  had  fairly  engaged 
in  his  new  duties,  he  was  taken  ill,  in  Boston,  with  brain 
fever,  and  died,  a  fortnight  later,  on  March  i,  in  his  39th 
year. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 826  1 53 

In  April,  1832,  he  married  Martha  Walker,  who  survived 
him  with  a  daughter  and  a  son,  another  daughter  having 
died  in  infancy. 


Samuel  Gaylord,  Junior,  eldest  child  of  Captain  Samuel 
and  Polly  Pons  (Starr)  Gaylord,  of  Cromwell  (then  part 
of  Middletown),  Connecticut,  was  born  on  June  14,  1806. 
A  sister  married  Dr.  Richard  Warner  (Yale  1817). 

Immediately  on  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  William  L.  Storrs  (Yale  1814),  of  Middletown. 

He  died  in  Middletown,  of  typhus  fever,  after  two 
weeks'  illness,  on  November  14,  1826,  in  his  21st  year. 

Horatio  Nelson  Graves,  the  second  son  of  Erastus  and 
Rhoda  (Rowe)  Graves,  of  Sunderland,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  April  7,  1806. 

He  had  intended  to  study  medicine,  but  his  mother's  dying 
injunction  (in  April,  1827)  led  him,  after  a  slight  delay, 
to  enter  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he  finished  the 
course  in  1829. 

After  having  supplied  for  nearly  a  year  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Middlefield,  Connecticut,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  American  Sunday  School  Union,  and  trav- 
eled for  them  on  horseback  in  the  Western  Reserve  of  Ohio 
and  in  Michigan. 

In  June,  1832,  he  began  to  preach  in  Townshend,  in  south- 
eastern Vermont,  where  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  on  February  5,  1833. 

He  married,  on  March  25,  1834,  Martha,  fifth  daughter 
of  John  and  Martha  (Boltwood)  Arms,  of  Conway, 
Massachusetts. 

He  labored  in  Townshend  most  acceptably  for  more  than 
fifteen  years,  until  obliged  by  the  state  of  his  health  to  go 
South  for  the  winter  in  1847.  He  was  compelled  to  resign 
his  charge  on  September  4,  1848,  and  then  removed  to  a 


154  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

farm  in  Hempstead,  Long  Island.  For  a  time  his  health 
improved,  and  he  resumed  preaching,  but  in  the  spring  of 
1850  he  grew  worse,  and  removed  to  a  more  sheltered  cli- 
mate, in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  where  he  died  on  October  21, 
1852,  in  his  47th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  daughter  and  three  sons. 
The  second  son  was  graduated  here  in  1866. 

James  Burr  Griswold,  son  of  Zachariah  Griswold,  a 
merchant  of  New  York  City,  entered  Yale  from  Hamilton 
College  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

While  on  a  visit  to  St.  Augustine,  Florida,  for  his  health, 
he  died  of  consumption,  on  May  3,  1829,  at  the  age  of  22. 

Samuel  Hassard,  son  of  Robert  Hassard,  was  born  in 
the  Island  of  Jamaica,  on  January  21,  1806,  and  was  brought 
by  his  father  to  the  United  States  to  be  educated  at  the  age 
of  six.  He  spent  some  time  in  Westerly,  Rhode  Island,  and 
completed  his  preparation  for  Yale  in  Phillips  Andover 
Academy. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  for  some  time  in  edi- 
torial work  on  a  newspaper  in  New  Haven,  and  subsequently 
studied  medicine. 

He  finally  became  a  candidate  for  orders  in  the  Episcopal 
Church,  and  was  admitted  to  the  diaconate  by  Bishop 
Brownell,  in  North  Haven,  on  June  17,  1835. 

He  became  Rector  of  St.  Thomas's  Church,  Taunton, 
Massachusetts,  in  November,  1835,  and  was  ordained  Priest 
by  Bishop  Griswold  in  the  fall  of  1835. 

At  the  close  of  October,  1838,  he  resigned  his  charge  in 
Taunton,  and  in  April,  1839,  became  Rector  of  St.  James's 
Church,  Great  Barrington,  where  he  remained  until  his 
death  (after  years  of  feebleness),  from  erysipelas,  on 
January  13,  1847,  ^t  the  age  of  41. 

He  married  Sarah  Cook,  of  Rhode  Island,  who  survived 
him  with  one  son  (Yale  Medical  School  1862). 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 826  1 55 

Mr.  Hassard  was  regarded  as  a  preacher  of  distinguished 
abiHty  and  a  man  of  the  truest  Christian  character.  A  vol- 
ume of  his  sermons  was  pubHshed  after  his  death. 

Alexander  Thomas  Hawkins,  son  of  James  L.  Haw- 
kins, a  banker  of  Baltimore,  entered  Yale  at  the  opening 
of  Sophomore  year  from  St.  Mary's  College,  Maryland, 
when  about  19  years  old. 

He  received  the  M.A.  degree  in  September,  1829;  but  is 
marked  as  dead  in  the  Triennial  Catalogue  of  Graduates 
issued  in  August,  1835. 

Asa  Theodore  Hopkins,  son  of  Asa  and  Abigail  (Burn- 
ham)  Hopkins,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  July 
25,  1805.     His  father  died  in  his  infancy. 

Shortly  after  graduation  he  went  to  Ithaca,  New  York, 
where  he  resided  for  more  than  two  years  in  the  family  of 
the  Rev.  William  Wisner, — employed  partly  in  teaching  and 
partly  in  conducting  a  weekly  paper,  but  mainly  in  the 
study  of  theology.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Cayuga  on  June  19,  1828;  and  married  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1829,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Asa  Wisner,  of  Elmira, 
and  niece  of  his  theological  preceptor.  At  this  date  he  was 
supplying  the  pulpit  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Albany,  whose  pastor,  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Chester  (Yale 
1804),  had  just  died;  and  he  gave  such  satisfaction  that  on 
March  2  he  was  invited  to  the  vacant  place,  but  in  view  of 
the  importance  of  the  charge  and  his  own  inexperience,  he 
declined  the  invitation. 

In  April,  1829,  what  is  now  the  First  Congregational 
Church  in  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  was  organized,  and 
Mr.  Hopkins  was  elected  pastor. 

He  accepted  the  call,  and  was  ordained  and  installed  there 
on  August  5. 

He  was  dismissed  at  his  own  request,  early  in  1832,  and 
was  subsequently  employed  for  some  months  as  a  supply 
for  the  Essex  Street  Church  in  Boston. 


156  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  next  accepted  a  call  from  the  Bleecker  Street  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Utica,  New  York,  where  he  was  installed 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Oneida  on  July  18,  1833. 

He  was  dismissed  by  his  own  request  on  February  5, 
1835 ;  and  while  supplying  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Brooklyn,  he  was  called  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Buffalo,  where  he  began  to  preach  in  October,  though  not 
installed  until  February  17,  1836. 

In  this  office  he  continued  with  credit  until  his  death.  In 
May,  1846,  both  he  and  his  wife  being  in  feeble  health,  they 
left  home  for  a  visit  to  Europe.  Mrs.  Hopkins's  rapidly 
failing  health  hastened  their  return;  but  she  died  on  ship- 
board, on  November  18. 

He  continued  at  his  post  for  nearly  a  year  longer;  but 
after  some  weeks  of  ominous  weakness,  he  died  of  apoplexy, 
in  Buffalo,  on  November  27,  1847,  in  his  43d  year. 

The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  con- 
ferred on  him  by  Hamilton  College  in  the  summer  before 
his  death.     He  had  no  children. 

EvERTON  JuDSON,  the  eldest  of  six  children  of  Asa  and 
Sarah  (Minor)  Judson,  of  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  December  8,  1799.  He  became  a  Christian  in  1821, 
and  then  turned  to  College  as  a  preparation  for  the  min- 
istry, and  was  admitted  to  the  Sophomore  Class  in  the  fall 
of  1823. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and 
in  August,  1828,  he  was  licensed  to  preach.  He  then  left 
the  Seminary,  and  under  a  commission  from  the  American 
Sunday  School  Union  as  their  agent,  spent  the  following 
year  in  organizing  Sunday  Schools  in  Ohio. 

In  the  summer  of  1829  he  offered  himself  as  a  missionary 
to  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  and  was 
ordained  in  Woodbury,  as  an  Evangelist,  on  August  26. 

He  returned  to  Ohio,  and  in  October  began  preaching  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Milan,  in  what  is  now 
Erie  County,  where  he  remained  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 826  1 57 

He  was  not,  however,  regularly  installed  as  pastor  until  the 
latter  part  of  May,  1837. 

In  1835  he  married  Mrs.  Catharine  B.  Stuart,  who  sur- 
vived him. 

His  health  failed  seriously  in  December,  1847,  and  he  died 
in  Milan  on  August  20,  1848,  in  his  49th  year. 

He  was  an  unusually  earnest  and  effective  preacher,  and 
a  tireless  laborer  for  the  good  of  his  people.  His  interest 
in  education  was  strong,  and  as  a  Trustee  of  Western 
Reserve  College  (from  1842)  he  had  much  influence. 

A  Memoir  of  his  life  was  published  by  his  classmate  Bar- 
rows in  1852. 

Stephen  Walbridge  Meech,  son  of  Stephen  and  Lucy 
(Billings)  Meech,  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
1804.  About  1809  the  family  removed  to  Preston.  He 
entered  Yale  from  Amherst  College  at  the  opening  of  Junior 
year. 

On  September  28,  fifteen  days  after  graduation,  he  mar- 
ried Anne  Eliza,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Hyde 
(Yale  1803),  of  Preston. 

He  was  for  some  fifteen  years  a  merchant  in  St.  Louis. 
He  then  returned  to  his  native  State,  and  for  the  rest  of 
his  life  resided  in  Norwich,  engaged  principally  in  the  lum- 
ber business,  and  also  having  an  interest  in  the  leather  trade 
in  New  York  City. 

He  was  a  Republican  member  of  the  State  Legislature  in 
1856,  and  was  reelected  in  1857.  While  in  attendance  on 
the  sessions  in  Hartford,  he  died,  after  a  short  but  severe 
illness,  on  May  31,  at  the  age  of  53.  His  wife  sur^'ived 
him  with  one  daughter,  out  of  a  family  of  twelve  children. 

Asahel  Phelps  Mills,  son  of  Sterling  and  Abigail 
(Phelps)  Mills,  of  Hebron,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  1797. 
In  his  childhood  the  family  removed  to  Austinburg,  Ashta- 
bula County,  Ohio.  He  entered  Yale  in  1818,  but  on 
account  of  the  failure  of  his  health,  was  obliged  to  leave 


158  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

the  Class  at  the  close  of  Junior  year.  He  returned  a  little 
more  than  four  years  later,  and  joined  the  Senior  Class.  In 
May,  1826,  his  health  being  much  impaired,  he  was  obliged 
to  leave  New  Haven. 

For  two  preceding  summers  he  had  been  in  the  employ  of 
4he  Kennebeck  Steam  Navigation  Company,  and  had  for 
the  latter  part  of  the  time  acted  as  Master  of  the  steamboat 
IVaterville. 

He  died  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  late  in  September,  after 
several  weeks'  illness,  at  the  age  of  29. 

Meantime  his  degree  had  been  voted  him,  on  condition  of 
his  completing  his  examinations  during  the  following  year ; 
and  his  name  was  afterwards  enrolled  with  his  Class. 

Allen  Clay  Morgan,  son  of  Alexander  Morgan,  of  New 
London,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  7,  1803.  His 
mother  was  Sally,  daughter  of  Captain  Stephen  and  Patience 
(Bolles)  Clay,  of  New  London. 

The  family  soon  removed  to  Greenfield,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  became  a  communicant  in  the  Episcopal  Church 
at  the  age  of  16.  To  obtain  a  higher  education  he  engaged 
in  school-teaching,  and  was  brought  by  the  Rev.  Nathaniel 
S.  Wheaton  (Yale  1814)  to  Hartford,  where  he  was  pre- 
pared to  enter  College  in  the  spring  of  1823. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Norwalk,  in  Hartford,  and 
in  Ulster,  New  York,  until  his  admission  to  Deacon's  orders 
by  Bishop  Brownell  in  Hartford  on  November  27,  183 1. 

He  then  officiated  in  St.  Matthew's  Church,  in  Plymouth, 
and  a  newly-formed  parish  in  Bristol,  until  called,  about 
October,  1832,  to  supply  a  vacancy  in  the  rectorship  of  St. 
John's  Church,  Waterbury,  where  he  labored  for  four  years 
with  great  zeal  and  acceptance.  He  was  advanced  to  the 
Priesthood  by  his  Bishop  on  January  17,  1833. 

In  May,  1836,  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  Principal  of 
the  Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire,  and  accepted  the  place 
in  the  autumn.     His  success  was  gratifying,  but  his  health 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 826  1 59 

began  to  fail  in  August,  1838,  and  while  absent  from  home 
for  recreation,  he  died  suddenly  in  New  York  City  on 
October  12,  1838,  in  his  36th  year.  He  was  buried  in 
Waterbury. 

He  was  never  married. 

William  Parmelee,  son  of  Elias  and  Fanny  (Fitch) 
Parmelee,  of  Lansingburg,  New  York,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 28,  1806.  He  entered  the  Class  of  1825  at  the  opening 
of  Sophomore  year,  in  1822,  but  was  obliged  by  illness  to  be 
absent  during  Junior  year,  and  on  his  return  joined  the 
next  Class. 

He  studied  law  for  about  two  years  with  George  A.  Sim- 
mons (Dartmouth  Coll.  1816),  of  Keeseville  (who  had  pre- 
pared him  for  College),  and  spent  one  year  in  the  ofifice  of 
Samuel  Stevens,  of  Albany. 

On  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1830,  he  began  practice  in 
Albany,  where  he  lived  until  his  death. 

In  1836  he  was  appointed  City  Attorney  by  the  City 
Council.  In  1839  he  was  appointed  a  Judge  of  the  County 
Court,  and  in  1840  was  transferred  to  the  office  of  Recorder 
of  the  city,  and  ex  officio  a  member  of  the  Common  Council, 
which  office  he  held  until  elected  Mayor  in  April,  1846. 
After  a  year's  service,  he  was  elected  in  June,  1847,  Pre- 
siding Judge  of  the  County  Court,  and  held  that  office  until 
November,  1852.  In  November,  1853,  he  was  reelected 
Mayor,  and  so  continued  until  his  death  in  Albany,  from 
cancer  of  the  throat,  after  two  months'  painful  illness,  on 
March  15,  1856,  in  his  50th  year. 

He  married,  in  June,  1838,  Margaretta  Wright,  of  Balti- 
more, who  died  in  Lansingburg  on  December  24,  1841,  at 
tlie  age  of  23,  leaving  one  daughter. 

He  next  married,  in  November,  1848,  Helen  L.,  daughter 
of  Dr.  T.  Romeyn  Beck  (Union  Coll.  1807),  of  Albany,  who 
died  in  Croton,  on  November  20,  1863,  leaving  one  daugh- 
ter;  a  son  died  in  infancy. 


l6o  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Hugh  Peters,  son  of  John  Thompson  Peters  (Yale 
1789),  of  Hebron,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  30, 
1807.  In  his  childhood  the  family  removed  to  Hartford, 
and  before  he  entered  College  his  father  had  become  a 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State. 

He  studied  law  under  his  father's  direction,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1828,  and  early  in  1829  emigrated  to  Cincinnati, 
but  as  the  Ohio  laws  required  a  longer  term  of  legal  study 
than  those  of  Connecticut,  his  entrance  on  practice  was 
delayed  until  1830. 

His  prospects  at  the  bar  were  good,  but  his  body  was 
found  in  the  Ohio  River  on  the  morning  of  June  9,  1831, 
and  it  is  supposed  that  he  had  wandered  in  his  sleep  to  the 
river,  under  some  stress  of  business,  which  had  worried  and 
harassed  him. 

He  began  while  in  College  to  write  occasional  poetry  for 
the  press  (especially  for  the  New  England  Weekly  Review, 
a  Hartford  newspaper),  which  showed  abundant  humor  and 
much  skill  in  versification. 


Amos  Augustus  Phelps,  son  of  Amos  and  Clarissa 
(Bodwell)  Phelps,  was  born  in  Simsbury,  Connecticut,  on 
November  11,  1804.  In  his  early  childhood  his  mother  was 
obliged  to  obtain  a  divorce,  and  he  was  mainly  brought  up 
in  the  family  of  a  brother  of  hers  in  that  part  of  Farmington 
which  is  now  Avon.  About  1820  Mrs.  Phelps  married  Wil- 
liam Tryon,  of  Farmington. 

In  1 82 1  he  became  a  Christian,  and  began  his  preparation 
for  Yale,  which  he  entered  in  1823. 

In  1827  he  began  his  theological  course  in  the  Andover 
Seminary,  supplementing  two  years  there  with  a  third  year 
in  the  Yale  Divinity  School. 

On  September  14,  1830,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  in 
Hopkinton,  Massachusetts,  as  colleague  pastor  with  the  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Howe   (Harvard    1786)  ;    and  in   November  he 


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married  Charlotte  Brown,  second  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
EHsha  Fisk  (Brown  Univ.  1795),  of  Wrentham. 

A  sermon  in  which  he  recited  some  statistics  of  the  use 
of  liquor  in  the  parish  caused  such  disturbance  that  his  dis- 
mission followed  on  May  i,  1832. 

He  was  next  installed,  on  September  13,  1832,  as  pastor 
of  the  Pine  Street  Congregational  Church  in  Boston.  In 
1833  he  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  on  Slavery  and  its 
Remedy,  which  attracted  much  notice,  and  brought  him  into 
close  relations  with  some  of  the  leaders  of  the  anti-slavery 
movement. 

He  resigned  his  pastorate,  on  account  of  his  wife's  failing 
health,  on  March  26,  1834,  and  soon  after  entered  on  an 
agency  for  the  American  Anti-Slavery  Society.  In  April, 
1836,  he  took  editorial  charge  of  the  Emancipator,  the  offi- 
cial organ  of  that  society,  in  New  York,  which  he  conducted 
until  May,  1837,  when  he  returned  to  Boston,  to  become 
General  Agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Anti-Slavery  Society. 
His  disapproval  of  the  attitude  of  Garrison  and  his  follow- 
ers led  him  to  resign  his  office  in  December,  1838.  His  wife 
died  in  Boston  on  August  31,  1838,  at  the  age  of  35,  leaving 
one  son. 

After  preaching  for  about  six  months  to  the  Free  Church 
in  Marlborough  Chapel,  Boston,  he  was  installed  as  their 
pastor  on  July  24,  1839,  and  on  October  3  he  married  Caro- 
line G.,  daughter  of  Doty  Little,  of  Castine,  Maine,  who 
died  in  1840,  leaving  one  daughter.  Difficulties  soon  arose 
in  his  church,  and  he  resigned  in  1841,  after  which  he  again 
spent  a  few  months  in  the  service  of  the  American  Anti- 
Slavery  Society,  and  subsequently  became  City  Missionary. 

While  still  nominally  City  Missionary,  on  March  2,  1842, 
he  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Maverick  Congregational 
Church  in  East  Boston.  On  October  9,  1844,  he  married 
Lucy  T.  Little,  a  sister  of  his  late  wife. 

On  account  of  the  unfavorable  effect  of  the  climate  on  his 
health,  he  accepted  in  April,  1845,  the  secretaryship  of  the 


l62  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

American  and  Foreig'n  Anti-Slavery  Society  in  New  York 
City. 

The  progress  of  pulmonary  consumption  forced  him  to 
sail  in  October,  1846,  for  Hayti,  and  after  wintering  there 
without  substantial  benefit  he  returned  in  April,  1847,  to 
New  Orleans,  and  thence  by  land  to  New  York,  where  he 
arrived,  much  exhausted,  in  June.  His  wife  was  at  her  old 
home  in  Castine,  and  on  his  way  thither  he  reached  Boston 
on  July  23.  He  was  then  too  feeble  for  further  exertion, 
and  was  taken  to  the  house  of  his  brother-in-law,  the  Rev. 
Erasmus  D.  Moore,  in  Roxbury,  where  he  died  on  July  30, 
in  his  43d  year.  He  was  buried  in  Mount  Auburn  Ceme- 
tery.    His  wife  survived  him  with  two  daughters. 

William  Robinson,  the  fourth  child  of  John  and  Susan 
(Thomas)  Robinson,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  was 
born  on  September  20,  1806.  His  mother  was  of  Huguenot 
descent. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1828.  Besides  practicing  his  profession,  he  was  also  a 
planter. 

He  removed  subsequently  to  Alabama,  and  died  at  his 
residence  in  Linden,  Marengo  County,  on  July  7,  1856,  at 
the  age  of  50.     He  was  never  married. 

William  Frederick  Rowland,  Junior,  son  of  the  Rev. 
William  Frederick  Rowland  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1784),  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Exeter,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  grandson  of  the  Rev.  David  Sherman  Rowland 
(Yale  1743),  was  born  in  Exeter  on  October  25,  1807. 
His  mother  was  Ann  Giddings,  of  Exeter. 

In  consequence  of  feeble  health,  he  never  studied  a  pro- 
fession, but  lived  on  a  farm.  He  died  of  consumption  in 
Exeter  on  December  17,  1849,  ^^  ^^^^  43^  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1826  163 

James  Malcolm  Smith  was  born  on  one  of  the  Turks 
Islands  in  the  Bahamas  in  1806. 

He  studied  medicine  in  New  York  City,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  1832. 

In  September,  1837,  he  entered  the  United  States  Navy  as 
an  Assistant  Surgeon,  and  in  March,  1843,  attained  the  rank 
of  Passed  Assistant  Surgeon;  but  about  the  year  1844  he 
was  attacked  with  a  disease  of  the  brain,  from  which  he 
never  recovered.  He  died  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  on 
April  29,  1848,  aged  42  years,  and  was  buried  in  Greenwood 
Cemetery. 

William  Smith  came  to  College  from  Brookhaven,  Long 
Island. 

He  studied  law  and  is  said  to  have  settled  in  Madison,  on 
the  Ohio  River,  in  southeastern  Indiana,  where  he  died  in 
1829,  aged  about  22  years. 

John  Wright  Stanley  or  Stanly,  from  Wilmington, 
North  Carolina,  was  born  about  1806.  He  has  been  sup- 
posed to  be  a  grandson  of  John  Wright  and  Ann  (Cogdell) 
Stanly,  of  New  Bern,  and  son  of  John  Stanly,  who  was  a 
Member  of  Congress  from  North  Carolina  from  1801  to 
1803  and  1809  to  181 1. 

His  name  is  marked  as  deceased  in  the  Triennial  Cata- 
logue of  Graduates  issued  in  1838. 

Harlow  Lowndes  Street,  the  second  son  of  Levi  Wil- 
liam and  Rhoda  (Brace)  Street,  of  Moscow,  Livingston 
County,  New  York,  was  born  on  December  31,  1800,  and 
provided  for  his  College  course  by  his  own  earnings.  He 
entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year,  after  two  years 
at  Hamilton  College. 

For  a  year  or  more  after  graduation  he  was  Principal  of 
the  Academy  in  Dudley,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts, 


164  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

and  in  March,  1828,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven  to  Mary 
C.  Sumner,  whose  home  was  in  Carthage,  Ohio. 

Directly  after  marriage  he  settled  in  Cincinnati,  where 
he  resumed  with  E.  S.  Haines  the  study  of  law,  which  he 
had  begun  in  New  England. 

His  lungs,  however,  were  affected  by  the  climate,  so  that 
a  removal  to  the  South  was  advised,  and  in  1830  he  settled 
in  Mississippi,  going  thence  to  New  Orleans,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1832. 

His  disease,  however,  made  steady  progress,  and  his 
physician  recommended  a  visit  to  the  North  during  the  hot 
season  of  1834.  The  change  was  beneficial  for  a  time,  but 
in  September  an  attack  of  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs  left  him 
very  weak,  and  he  went  South  as  soon  as  possible,  leaving 
his  wife  and  two  children  with  friends  in  Cincinnati.  The 
younger  child  soon  died,  and  in  May,  1835,  having  given  up 
all  hope  of  recovery,  he  left  for  the  North,  with  the  expecta- 
tion of  dying  among  friends.  Death,  however,  overtook 
him,  about  two  hours  before  the  steamer  reached  Cincinnati, 
on  June  2,  in  his  35th  year. 

His  wife  next  married  a  Mr.  Hopkins,  and  was  again 
left  a  widow.  His  only  surviving  child,  a  son,  died  in 
opening  manhood. 

Elizur  Timothy  Washburn,  son  of  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Washburn  (Yale  1793),  and  Sarah  (Boardman)  Washburn, 
of  Farmington,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  1805.  His  father 
died  in  his  infancy,  and  his  mother  married,  in  1812,  Deacon 
Elijah  Porter,  of  Farmington.  He  entered  Yale  in  1823, 
with  the  purpose  of  becoming  a  minister,  but  this  design  he 
was  forced  by  the  weakness  of  his  lungs  to  relinquish. 

After  graduation  he  was  employed  for  two  or  three  years 
as  a  teacher  in  the  American  Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  in  Hartford.  On  the  failure  of  his  health  he  secured 
an  appointment,  early  in  1830,  as  Schoolmaster  in  the 
United  States  Navv. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 827  1 65 

In  the  fall  of  1830  he  sailed  on  a  Mediterranean  cruise, 
but  his  health  obliged  him  to  return  a  year  later.  He 
reached  Norfolk,  Virginia,  in  November,  1831,  and  died 
there  on  the  20th  of  that  month,  unmarried,  in  his  27th  year. 

Richard  Salter  Williams,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Porter  Williams  (Yale  1796),  of  Mansfield,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  March  i,  1805.  His  father  was 
installed  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  in  1821,  and  died 
in  December,  1826.  He  left  College  at  the  end  of  Junior 
year,  and  was  enrolled  with  his  Class  in  1844. 

He  studied  law  and  began  practice  in  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee, but  soon  removed  to  a  cotton  plantation  near 
Natchez,  Mississippi. 

He  married,  on  January  29,  1829,  Mrs.  Agnes  Wilson, 
the  widowed  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Hoggatt,  of  Natchez. 

In  1854  he  went  to  Europe  with  his  wife  and  other  rela- 
tives. They  sailed  on  their  return  on  the  steamer  Arctic, 
which  collided  with  a  French  steamer  on  September  27,  in 
a  fog,  off  the  Newfoundland  banks,  and  sank  with  all  on 
board. 

Their  children,  three  daughters,  all  died  in  childhood. 


CLASS  OF    1827 

Alldis  Samuel  Allen,  the  eldest  child  of  Deacon  Samuel 
and  Sally  Wood  (Alldis)  Allen,  of  Franklin,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Franklin  on  November  10,  1803.  Charles  Alldis 
Hiller  (Yale  1864)  is  a  nephew.  The  family  removed  in 
his  infancy  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Medway. 

His  great  excellence  as  a  singer  distinguished  him  not 
only  during  his  collegiate  course,  but  wherever  he  was 
known  during  life,  and  helped  to  defray  the  expenses  of  his 
academical  and  professional  education. 

On  graduation  he  began  medical  study  with  Dr.  Jonathan 
Knight  in  New  Haven,  and  after  attending  three  courses 


1 66  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

of  lectures  at  the  Yale  Medical  School,  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  the  spring  of  1830.  During  a  part  of 
this  time  he  taught  music,  gymnastics,  and  penmanship,  in 
the  New  Haven  Gymnasium,  conducted  by  Sereno  E. 
Dwight  and  his  brother. 

After  taking  his  medical  degree  he  practiced  his  profes- 
sion for  two  or  three  years  in  Bridgeport,  having  been  mar- 
ried, on  November  2,  1831,  to  Eliza  Martha  Wickes,  of 
Jamaica,  Long  Island,  the  eldest  sister  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
S.  Wickes  (Yale  1814). 

In  the  summer  of  1833  he  went  to  Jacksonville,  Illinois, 
at  the  request  of  some  of  his  classmates  who  were  interested 
in  the  establishment  of  a  college  at  that  place,  with  the  pur- 
pose of  filling  a  medical  professorship;  but  a  few  weeks 
after  his  arrival  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill  with  a  fever,  and 
died  within  one  week,  on  August  9,  in  his  30th  year. 

His  widow  returned  to  the  East,  and  died  in  Troy,  New 
York,  on  September  9,  1835,  without  children. 

George  Brinckerhoff  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York, 
in  1807. 

He  studied  law,  and  on  his  admission  to  the  bar  began 
practice  in  Albany.  He  had,  however,  while  in  College 
contracted  irregular  and  somewhat  dissipated  habits,  which 
impaired  his  success  and  finally  undermined  his  health. 

He  died  in  Albany,  unmarried,  on  February  10,  1846,  in 
his  39th  year. 

John  Marshall  Clagett  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Vir- 
ginia, in  1807,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the 
Sophomore  year. 

His  health  while  in  College  was  not  vigorous,  and  he  died 
of  consumption  at  his  father's  house,  on  January  21,  1830, 
in  his  23d  year. 

Joseph  Platt  Cooke  was  born  in  Danbury,  Connecticut, 
on  February  9,  1808,  the  only  son  of  Amos  Cooke  (Yale 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 827  1 67 

1791),  of  Danbury,  who  died  in  1810.  His  mother,  Sally 
Worthing-ton  Goodrich,  next  married,  in  181 5,  the  Hon. 
Frederick  Wolcott  (Yale  1786),  of  Litchfield. 

After  graduation  he  spent  about  a  year  in  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  making  observations  and  examinations  with  a  view 
to  engaging  in  manufacturing  business. 

In  1829,  however,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the 
office  of  Dr.  Doane  in  Boston  and  in  the  Harv^ard  Medical 
School,  and  worked  with  great  diligence,  until  he  unfortu- 
nately contracted  a  severe  cold  which  settled  on  his  lungs 
and  threatened  a  fatal  termination.  He  then  determined  on 
a  voyage  to  Southern  Europe,  and  sailed  for  Havre  in  the 
spring  of  183 1.  He  returned  in  1832  and  resumed  his 
studies,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1833. 

In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  began  practice  in  New  Orleans ; 
but  an  attack  of  yellow  fever  in  the  summer  of  1834  again 
developed  pulmonary  tendencies  and  brought  on  a  rapid 
decline. 

On  December  29  he  took  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  for 
New  York,  hoping  to  die  at  home ;  but  he  died  just  before 
arriving  in  port,  on  January  15,  1835,  at  the  age  of  27.  He 
was  buried  in  Litchfield. 

Adam  Tun  no  Cox,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Cox,  was 
born  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  about  1808,  and  entered 
College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year.  He  was  named 
for  his  father's  partner  in  business. 

He  returned  to  Charleston,  and  after  a  course  of  legal 
study  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  that  city  in  1830.  He 
removed  to  New  Orleans,  where  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
at  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  on  December  8,  1834. 

His  name  appears  for  the  last  time  in  the  New  Orleans 
Directory  for  1854;  he  probably  died  or  removed  elsewhere 
about  that  date. 

Zebulon  Crocker,  son  of  Zebulon  and  Sarah  Crocker,  of 
Willington,    Tolland    County,    Connecticut,    was    born    in 


l68  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

Willington  on  March  8,  1802.  He  had  been  brought  up  on 
a  farm,  and  had  taught  in  the  vicinity  before  coming  to 
College.  His  scholarship  was  such  that  he  was  selected  to 
deliver  a  Greek  oration  at  graduation. 

During  the  next  year  he  taught  in  Ellington,  and  then 
entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School ;  but  his  course  was  twice 
interrupted  by  periods  of  service  as  instructor  in  the  Elling- 
ton School  of  Mr.  John  Hall  (Yale  1802),  so  that  he  did 
not  leave  the  Seminary  until  183 1. 

He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Hartford  South  Asso- 
ciation of  Ministers  in  October,  1831,  and  after  a  further 
employment  in  Ellington  in  1832,  he  was  called  early  in  1833 
to  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Middle- 
town  Upper  Houses,  now  Cromwell,  where  he  was  ordained 
and  installed  on  May  2,  and  where  he  remained,  much 
esteemed,  until  his  death,  on  November  18,  1847,  in  his  46th 
year. 

He  was  present  as  a  delegate  from  the  General  Association 
of  Connecticut  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  at  the  sessions  in  1837,  when  the  "New  School"' 
ministers  and  communicants  were  excluded,  and  he  pub- 
lished the  next  year  a  lucid  and  valuable  history  of  that 
catastrophe,  and  of  the  preceding  theological  controversies, 
particularly  as  far  as  New  England  was  concerned. 

He  married  Elizabeth  Porter. 

They  had  no  children. 

Allen  Monroe  DeWolf,  son  of  Charles  and  Mary 
(Goodwin)  DeWolf,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  was  born  in 
Bristol  on  March  11,  1808. 

He  did  not  study  a  profession,  but  for  several  years  was 
in  business  with  his  father,  a  wealthy  manufacturer. 

On  account  of  the  failure  of  his  health  he  went  to  Cuba 
to  recruit,  and  while  residing  with  an  elder  brother  on  his 
cofifee  plantation.  Area  de  Noe,  died  there,  on  March  22, 
1838,  at  the  age  of  30. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1827  169 

Timothy  Edwards  Dwight,  the  eleventh  in  a  family  of 
seventeen  children  of  the  Hon.  Josiah  Dwight  (Harvard 
1786),  of  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  June  5, 
1808.  His  mother  was  Rhoda  Edwards,  a  granddaughter 
of  Jonathan  Edwards.     His  father  died  in  1821. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  as 
a  teacher  in  the  Academy,  and  afterwards  pursued  the  study 
of  the  law  there  under  the  direction  of  his  second  cousin, 
Thomas  P.  Devereux  (Yale  1813).  He  was  offered  a 
tutorship  in  College  in  the  fall  of  1829. 

His  health,  however,  failed  rapidly,  and  he  returned,  to 
die  of  consumption,  at  his  mother's  house  in  Northampton, 
on  May  29,  1833,  at  the  age  of  27. 

Henry  Pierrepont  Edwards,  fourth  son  of  the  Hon. 
Henry  Waggaman  Edwards  (Princeton  Coll.  1797)  and 
Lydia  (Miller)  Edwards,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  in  New 
Haven  on  April  20,  1808.  Through  their  common  descent 
from  Jonathan  Edwards,  he  was  a  second  cousin  of  his 
classmate  Dwight.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1824, 
and  a  sister  married  Dr.  Worthington  Hooker  (Yale  1825). 
During  his  College  course  his  father  was  a  United  States 
Senator. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Litchfield  Law  School,  and  in  183 1 
or  1832  began  practice  in  New  York  City,  where  he  soon 
rose  to  distinction.  On  June  7,  1847,  under  the  new  Con- 
stitution, at  the  early  age  of  39,  he  was  elected  a  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  for  the  term  of  eight  years,  and  after 
serving  to  the  entire  satisfaction  both  of  the  bar  and  of  the 
community,  he  was  assigned  on  January  i,  1853,  to  the  duty 
of  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals. 

While  still  in  office,  he  died  in  New  York,  after  a  brief 
illness,  from  a  fever,  on  February  27,  1855,  in  his  47th  year. 
He  was  buried  in  New  Haven.     He  was  unmarried. 

William  Gere,  son  of  Isaac  and  Jemima  (Kingsley) 
Gere,  of   Northampton,   Massachusetts,  and  a  brother  of 


17°  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Edward  Gere  (Yale  1818),  was  born  in  Northampton  in 
1808. 

After  a  sojourn  in  Northampton,  he  joined  the  Yale  Law 
School  in  1829,  but  did  not  long  continue. 

He  settled  in  St.  Louis  as  a  lawyer,  but  did  not  long 
remain  there. 

In  later  years  he  abandoned  the  law  and  supported  himself 
mainly  by  teaching. 

In  1858  he  was  living  in  Plaquemine,  Louisiana;  and 
during  the  rebellion  was  in  Clinton,  in  the  same  State. 

Later  he  was  teaching  in  Oxford,  Ohio,  but  returned  to 
Louisiana,  and  was  lost  sight  of  by  his  relatives. 

Charles  Griswold  Gurley,  son  of  Judge  Jacob  Baker 
Gurley  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1793)  and  Elizabeth  (Griswold) 
Gurley,  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  New 
London  on  June  4,  1808. 

Almost  immediately  after  graduation  his  health  began  to 
fail,  and  he  died  of  consumption  at  his  father's  house  on 
July  4,  1828,  aged  20  years. 

Richard  Hooker,  the  youngest  son  of  the  Hon.  John 
Hooker  (Yale  1782)  and  Sarah  (Dwight)  Hooker,  of 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Springfield  on  April 
10,  1808.  Four  of  his  brothers  had  been  graduated  here, 
in  1810,  1814,  1815,  and  1825,  respectively. 

He  became  a  Christian  in  his  Junior  year,  and  was 
strongly  disposed  to  offer  himself  for  foreign  missionary 
work,  but  a  serious  weakness  of  health  forbade. 

For  the  same  reason  his  preparation  for  the  ministry  was 
long  deferred,  and  when  he  finally  entered  the  Princeton 
Seminary  in  1834  he  was  obliged  to  withdraw  after  a  few 
months'  trial.  Subsequently  he  entered  the  Theological 
Seminary  at  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  and  was  graduated 
there  in  1835. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 827  171 

He  was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Hopewell,  in  Georgia,  on  April  22,  1837,  having  undertaken 
in  1836  the  supply  of  a  small  congregation  at  Mount  Zion, 
near  the  western  border  of  the  State,  where  he  remained 
until  1840.  He  then  removed  to  Monticello,  where  he  sup- 
plied the  pulpit  until  1843. 

He  then  undertook  for  several  months  the  supply  of  the 
specially  prominent  and  influential  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Macon,  and  was  surprised  by  receiving  a  unanimous  call  to 
settle  as  pastor,  which  he  declined.  When,  however,  the 
call  was  renewed,  he  consented  with  some  misgivings  to 
assume  the  burden  of  the  pastorate,  and  was  installed  on 
November  17. 

He  was  married,  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  on  July  15, 
1846,  to  Aurelia,  the  eldest  child  of  James  and  Susan 
(Breed)  Dwight,  and  sister  of  John  B.  Dwight  (Yale  1840), 
James  M.  B.  Dwight  (Yale  1846),  and  President  Timothy 
Dwight  (Yale  1849). 

He  resigned  his  charge  in  the  spring  of  1852,  and  fixed 
his  residence  in  New  Haven.  The  state  of  his  health  pre- 
vented his  assuming  another  pastorate,  but  he  was  able  to 
supply  various  pulpits  for  much  of  the  time,  and  in  par- 
ticular preached  frequently  in  the  South  Church  in  Durham 
for  some  two  years,  and  quite  regularly  for  the  last  six 
months  of  his  life  and  up  to  a  fortnight  before  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  New  Haven,  on  December  19,  1857,  in 
his  50th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Springfield. 

His  widow  died  of  pneumonia  in  New  Haven  on  January 
25,  1874,  in  her  58th  year. 

Their  only  child  was  graduated  here  in  1869. 

John  Loomis  Howard,  the  eldest  child  of  John  Howard, 
Junior,  and  Patty  (Loomis)  Howard,  of  Bolton,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  in  Bolton  on  November  20,  1803,  and  united 
with  the  church  there  in  July,  1819.  He  spent  his  Fresh- 
man year  in  Amherst  College. 


172  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  entered  the  Auburn  (New  York)  Theological  Semi- 
nary of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  1827,  and  died  in 
Auburn,  of  fever,  after  a  brief  illness,  on  June  2,  1830,  in 
his  27th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Auburn. 

George  Huntington,  Junior,  the  fifth  child  and  eldest 
son  of  the  Hon.  George  and  Hannah  (Thomas)  Hunting- 
ton, of  Rome,  New  York,  and  a  grandson  of  the  Hon. 
Benjamin  Huntington  (Yale  1761),  was  born  in  Rome  on 
August  27,  1807,  and  entered  Yale  from  Hamilton  College 
at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

On  graduation  he  joined  the  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary, but  was  obliged  by  illness  to  go  home  in  March,  1828. 
While  on  his  way,  he  died  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Benjamin 
Wright,  in  New  York  City,  on  March  25,  in  his  21st  year. 

William  Kirby,  the  eldest  son  of  Elisha  and  Betsey 
(Spencer)  Kirby,  of  Middletown  Upper  Houses,  now  Crom- 
well, Connecticut,  was  born  on  July  10,  1805. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1828,  and  in  the 
ensuing  winter  was  one  of  the  "Illinois  Band,"  who  pledged 
their  lives  to  the  cause  of  education  and  religion  in  the 
Western  States.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New 
Haven  East  Association  on  August  10,  1830,  and  on  March 
22,  1831,  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  at  Guilford. 

For  the  next  two  years  he  was  an  instructor  in  Illinois 
College,  at  Jacksonville,  and  while  there,  in  consequence  of 
the  confinement  and  exhausting  labor  of  his  position,  as  well 
as  of  protracted  attacks  of  intermittent  fever,  his  constitu- 
tion experienced  a  shock  from  which  it  never  recovered. 

He  married,  on  November  28,  1832,  Hannah  McClure, 
second  daughter  of  Elihu  and  Rachel  McClintock  (Mc- 
Clure) Wolcott,  of  Jacksonville,  and  formerly  of  East 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  and  sister  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel 
Wolcott  (Yale  1833),  and  of  Elizur  Wolcott  (Yale  1839). 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1827  1 73 

In  July,  1833,  he  took  charge  of  a  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Union  Grove,  Putnam  County.  On  account  of  divisions 
in  the  parish  between  what  later  became  the  Old  and  New 
School  parties,  he  went,  in  October,  1834,  to  the  church  in 
Blackstone's  Grove,  Will  County,  twenty-eight  miles  south 
of  Chicago,  where  he  continued  under  circumstances  of 
severe  hardship  for  a  year  and  a  half. 

In  1836  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Mendon,  Adams  County,  where  he 
remained  for  ten  years,  on  a  nominal  salary  of  $400. 

In  July,  1846,  he  became  the  General  Agent  of  the 
American  Home  Missionary  Society  for  the  State,  with  his 
residence  at  Jacksonville,  and  in  this  service  he  labored 
unremittingly  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Winchester, 
Scott  County,  after  a  few  days'  illness,  from  pneumonia,  on 
December  20,  1851,  in  his  47th  year. 

His  wife  died  in  Jacksonville  on  August  31,  1858,  in  her 
48th  year.  Their  children  were  three  sons  and  four 
daughters. 

John  Blair  McPhail,  the  son  of  John  McPhail,  a  native 
of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  of  Mary  (Wilson)  McPhail,  of 
Norfolk,  was  born  in  Norfolk,  Virginia,  on  November  9, 
1807.  He  entered  Hampden-Sidney  College,  Virginia,  in 
1823,  and  two  years  later  came  to  Yale.  A  brother  was 
graduated  here  in   1835. 

He  spent  the  year  after  graduation  in  the  Yale  Law 
School  and  then  returned  to  Norfolk,  where  he  continued 
the  study. 

In  September,  1830,  he  married  Nancy  Cabell,  daughter 
of  Clement  Carrington,  and  then  established  himself  on  a 
plantation  in  Halifax  County,  where  his  residence  con- 
tinued for  seventeen  years.     He  had  twelve  children. 

In  the  fall  of  1847  he  removed  to  a  plantation  near  Ran- 
dolph, in  Charlotte  County,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
in  1893,  in  his  86th  year. 


174  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  was  active  in  various  public  directions,  for  example 
as  President  of  the  Richmond  and  Mecklenburg  Railroad 
Company. 

He  was  a  trustee  of  Hampden-Sidney  College  from  1844 
to  1866. 

William  Edward  Mead,  son  of  Jehiel  and  Phebe 
(Mead)  Mead,  of  Quakerridge,  in  the  northwestern  part 
of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  December  15, 
1805. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  New  York  City,  and  was  suc- 
cessful in  his  career,  and  maintained  a  consistent  Christian 
character. 

He  died  in  New  York,  of  a  bilious  fever,  after  a  short 
but  severe  illness,  on  October  8,  1834,  in  his  29th  year. 
He  was  never  married.     He  was  buried  in  Greenwich. 

Frederick  Ira  Mills,  a  son  of  Judge  Michael  Frederick 
and  Sarah  (Pettibone)  Mills,  of  Norfolk,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  Norfolk  on  August  15,  1807.  John  L.  Mills  (Yale 
1855)  was  a  first  cousin.  He  did  not  enter  College  until 
Sophomore  year. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  with  his  father, 
but  soon  fell  into  a  decline,  and  died  of  consumption  in 
Norfolk  on  May  16,  1830,  in  his  23d  year.  He  was  con- 
sidered a  young  man  of  especial  promise. 

William  Bowditch  Oaks,  son  of  Nathan  and  Julia  Ann 
(Bowditch)  Oaks,  of  New  Haven,  and  grandson  of  Nathan 
and  Esther  (Peck)  Oaks,  was  born  in  New  Haven  on  Octo- 
ber 19,  1808,  and  baptized  in  Trinity  Church  on  September 
9,  1810. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  but  his 
course  there  was  interrupted  after  a  few  months  by  domes- 
tic reverses,  which  broke  up  the  family.  His  father  had 
previously  been  supposed  to  be  wealthy. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1827  1 75 

He  became  a  teacher,  for  a  short  time  in  Stonington,  and 
for  a  year  and  a  half  at  Northford  in  North  Branford.  He 
was  finally  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  removed  to  New 
Orleans,  where  he  died  suddenly  in  June,  1841,  in  his  33d 
year. 

Charles  Tarbell  Parker,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sally 
(Tarbell)  Parker,  of  Boston,  was  born  in  Boston  on  August 
17,  1808.  A  brother  was  graduated  in  1825.  His  father 
died  before  he  entered  Yale. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Boston,  and  continued  it 
at  the  Litchfield  Law  School. 

He  at  first  established  himself  in  practice  in  Cincinnati, 
but  returned  home  towards  the  end  of  1830,  a  victim  of 
bad  habits.  In  the  fall  of  1832,  at  his  father's  solicitation, 
a  classmate,  Robert  K.  Richards,  persuaded  him  to  enter 
into  a  law  partnership  in  St.  Louis.  He  died  in  St.  Louis, 
of  consumption,  on  July  14,  1833,  in  his  25th  year. 

George  Gilbert  Parker,  a  son  of  Thaddeus  and  Harriet 
(Gilbert)  Parker,  was  born  in  Coventry,  Connecticut,  on 
May  9,  1800.  The  family  were  residents  of  Belchertown, 
Massachusetts,  while  he  was  in  College,  and  he  gained  an 
education  mainly  by  his  own  exertions. 

He  taught  for  one  year  after  graduation  in  Ply- 
mouth, Connecticut,  and  for  a  second  year  in  Petersham, 
Massachusetts. 

He  then  studied  law  with  Myron  Lawrence  (Middlebury 
Coll.  1820),  of  Belchertown,  and  on  his  admission  to  the 
bar  in  183 1  began  practice  in  Ashburnham,  Worcester 
county,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 

He  married,  on  December  26,  1836,  Hannah  Olmstead, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Olmstead)  Holkins,  of 
Enfield,  Connecticut,  and  widow  of  Joseph  Wheeler  Woods 
(Dartmouth  Coll.  1823),  a  son  of  Professor  Leonard 
Woods,  of  Andover,  who  died  in  1827. 


176  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

He  was  a  leading  citizen  of  Ashburnham,  an  able  and 
accurate  lawyer,  of  strong  common  sense  and  sound  judg- 
ment, and  much  esteemed  for  his  honesty  and  uprightness. 
He  represented  the  town  in  the  General  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1840  and  1841.  He  partially  lost  his  hearing 
in  early  manhood,  which  in  a  measure  unfitted  him  as  an 
advocate  in  the  courts. 

He  died  in  Ashburnham  on  December  14,  1852,  in  his  53d 
year. 

His  widow  died  in  Andover  on  January  18,  1881. 

They  had  one  son  and  one  daughter.  The  latter  married 
the  Rev.  Asher  H.  Wilcox  (Yale  1859). 

John  McCukdy  Strong  Perry,  the  eldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  David  Lord  Perry  (Williams  Coll.  1798)  and  Anne 
Smith  Perry,  of  Sharon,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Sharon 
on  September  7,  1806.  He  was  a  grandson  of  the  Rev. 
David  Perry  (Yale  1772)  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan  Strong 
(Yale  1769),  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of  Sopho- 
more year. 

After  a  year,  spent  in  teaching  in  Sharon,  he  entered  the 
Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1831.  He 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Litchfield  North  Association 
on  June  8,  1830. 

On  November  9,  183 1,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Mendon,  Worcester 
County,  Massachusetts,  and  in  July,  1833,  was  married  to 
Harriet  Joanna,  youngest  daughter  of  Deacon  Charles  Lath- 
rop  (Yale  1788),  of  Norwich,  Connecticut. 

He  resigned  his  pastoral  charge  on  May  13,  1835,  to  go 
as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  to  Ceylon,  where 
two  sisters  of  Mrs.  Perry  had  previously  labored.  They 
sailed  from  Boston  three  days  later,  and  arrived  in  Septem- 
ber in  Ceylon,  where  they  embarked  successfully  on  their 
work. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    1 827  177 

Mr.  Perry  died  suddenly  from  cholera,  at  Batticotta,  on 
March  lo,  1838,  in  his  32d  year;  and  his  wife  died  three 
days  later,  in  her  22d  year. 

Their  only  child,  a  daughter,  died  unmarried. 

Charles  Milton  Pope,  commonly  called  Milton  Pope, 
son  of  Alexander  and  Delia  (Bibb)  Pope,  of  Cahaba,  and 
subsequently  of  Mobile,  Alabama,  was  born  in  1807,  and 
entered  College  as  a  Junior. 

After  graduation  he  spent  nearly  a  year  in  the  Yale  Law 
School,  and  was  married  in  New  Haven  on  July  23,  1828, 
to  Margaretta  Emlen,  daughter  of  Samuel  P.  Howell,  of 
Philadelphia. 

He  return  to  Mobile,  and  joined  his  father  in  business  as 
a  cotton- factor,  and  was  so  occupied  through  his  life. 

While  visiting  in  Philadelphia,  he  died  there  of  brain- 
fever,  on  April  21,  1849,  i"  ^^^^  4^^  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Philadelphia  on  September  26,  1861, 
aged  52  years,  and  both  are  buried  in  New  Haven.  Their 
children  were  a  son,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  three 
daughters. 

Alanson  Saunders,  son  of  Arnold  and  Fear  (Sturte- 
vant)  Saunders,  was  born  in  Warren,  Connecticut,  on  July 
25,  1796,  and  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore. 

After  teaching  for  two  years,  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity 
School,  where  he  completed  the  course  in  1831.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East  Association  on 
August  10,  1830,  and  the  license  was  renewed  four  years 
later. 

He  preached  for  brief  periods  in  Connecticut  and  Massa- 
chusetts, but  soon  went  to  Ohio,  and  supplied  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Madison,  Lake  County,  for  one  or 
two  years.  In  1836  he  took  charge  of  the  church  in  Union- 
ville,  just  to  the  eastward  of  Madison,  where  he  remained 
for  some  years,  and  where  he  married,  on  May  2,  1838,  Cor- 


178  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

nelia,  second  daughter  of  Porter  and  Rhoda  (Howard) 
Converse,  formerly  of  Vermont. 

He  also  taught  in  the  academy  in  Painesville,  in  the  same 
county,  and  about  1845  undertook  the  supply  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Geneva,  in  the  same  vicinity.  From 
Geneva  he  went  to  the  church  in  Rome,  Ashtabula  County, 
where  he  supplied  until  his  health  gave  way  in  1852. 

He  died  in  Unionville  on  November  5,  1853,  in  his  58th 
year. 

His  widow  died  in  Unionville  on  May  i,  1857,  in  her  46th 
year.  Their  children  were  four  sons,  of  whom  one  died 
in  infancy,  and  three  daughters. 

Ephraim  Simonds,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Atwood) 
Simonds,  of  Templeton,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  in  Templeton  on  June  24,  1801.  In  his  boyhood 
his  father,  who  was  a  Baptist  preacher,  removed  to  the 
adjoining  town  of  Winchendon,  to  take  charge  of  a  church 
there.  He  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year, 
having  spent  one  year  in  Amherst  College. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Snow  Hill,  Maryland, 
until  March,  1829,  when  he  went  to  Transylvania  Univer- 
sity in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Alva 
Woods,  an  eminent  Baptist  minister,  was  then  President. 

He  was  subsequently  appointed  Professor  of  Ancient 
Languages  in  that  institution,  but  resigned  his  post  in  June, 
1832.     Nothing  more  is  known  of  him. 

He  is  first  marked  as  dead  in  the  Triennial  Catalogue  of 
Graduates  issued  in  1847. 

Elijah  Nickerson  Train,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
Lewis  (Nickerson)  Train,  of  Boston,  was  born  in  Boston 
on  September  9,  1807. 

After  graduation  he  went  into  business  with  his  father, 
who  was  a  merchant  in  Boston,  and  continued  in  this  rela- 
tion (the  firm  being  Samuel  Train  &  Co.)  until  his  death. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 827  1 79 

He  had,  however,  as  early  as  his  College  days  shown  con- 
sumptive symptoms,  which  were  not  outgrown. 

He  traveled  widely  in  search  of  health,  and  finally  died 
in  Havana,  Cuba,  on  February  12,  1838,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  married,  in  1828,  in  Boston,  Caroline  Smith,  who 
died  before  him.     Their  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

WiLLARD  Henry  Walker,  the  eldest  son  of  Willard 
Walker,  a  merchant  of  Albany,  entered  Yale  in  182 1.  A 
brother  was  graduated  in  1829. 

He  was  for  a  few  years  a  merchant  in  Albany,  and  after 
about  1830  was  similarly  occupied  in  New  York  City,  but 
died  in  Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies,  on  March  11,  1836,  aged 
28  years.     He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  Walsh  was  born  in  Albany  in  1807. 

He  returned  to  Albany  after  graduation,  and  pursued  the 
study  of  law  for  several  months,  until  symptoms  of  con- 
sumption appeared. 

While  traveling  in  the  South  for  his  health  he  failed 
rapidly,  and  died  in  Lexington,  Virginia,  on  November  8, 
1828,  in  his  22d  year. 

William  Henry  Welch,  the  youngest  child  of  the  Hon. 
John  Welch  (Yale  1778)  and  Rosanna  (Peebles)  Welch,  of 
Milton  Society  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
Litchfield  on  June  i,  1805,  and  was  prepared  for  College  at 
the  Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School  in 
1827-28,  and  on  emigrating  to  Ohio  completed  his  studies 
in  Steubenville,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1830. 

After  practicing  his  profession  in  Steubenville  for  about 
a  year,  he  removed  to  Michigan  Territory,  settling  at  first 
in  Niles,  and  after  about  eighteen  months  going  thence  to 
White  Pigeon,  and  later  to  Kalamazoo.  During  these 
years,  partly  in  consequence  of  ill  health,  he  abandoned  his 
legal  practice. 


I  So  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  which  framed  the 
Constitution  of  the  State  in  1835. 

Having  met  with  serious  financial  losses,  after  the  organi- 
zation of  Minnesota  Territory,  in  1849,  he  removed  to  St. 
Anthony,  and  in  185 1  resumed  practice  in  St.  Paul.  In 
1853,  though  without  judicial  experience,  and  holding  no 
higher  office  than  that  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Pierce  Chief  Justice  of  the  Terri- 
tory for  a  term  of  four  years ;  at  the  expiration  of  his  term 
he  was  reappointed  by  President  Buchanan,  but  his  tenure 
of  office  was  terminated  by  the  admission  of  Minnesota 
as  a  State  in  May,  1858.  His  reputation  as  a  judge  had 
been  altogether  creditable. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  removed  to  Red  Wing,  where 
he  died  on  January  22,  1862,  in  his  57th  year. 

He  married,  about  the  time  of  his  removal  to  White 
Pigeon,  Henrietta  Edwards,  by  whom  he  had  several 
children. 


Simon  Alexander  Wickes,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Piner)  Wickes,  of  Chestertown,  on  the  eastern  shore  of 
Maryland,  was  born  in  Chestertown  in  1806  or  1807.  Both 
parents  died  shortly  before  he  entered  College. 

Upon  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the 
office  of  Dr.  James  Anderson,  of  Chestertown,  and  later 
attended  medical  lectures  in  Philadelphia,  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  183 1. 

He  established  himself  in  his  profession  in  Chestertown, 
and  was  very  popular  with  his  clients.  He  also  took  an 
active  interest  in  politics,  but  declined  to  be  a  candidate 
for  office. 

He  was  attacked  with  consumption,  and  sought  a  respite 
by  southern  travel ;  but  died  suddenly  at  a  friend's  house  in 
New  Orleans  in  1834,  and  was  buried  there. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 828  181 

John  Stoddard  Williams,  the  youngest  in  a  family  of 
eleven  children  of  Captain  Samuel  W.  Williams  (Yale 
1772),  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Wethers- 
field  on  June  3,  1806.     His  father  died  in  181 2. 

At  his  graduation  he  went  to  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
where  one  of  his  brothers  (Yale  1816)  was  settled,  and 
pursued  the  study  of  law,  in  part  in  the  office  of  the  Hon. 
Rufus  Choate,  developing  abilities  of  a  high  order. 

On  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  began  practice  in  Salem, 
where  he  gained  a  prominent  position.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  one  of  the  Representatives  in  the  General 
Court. 

He  died  in  Salem,  suddenly,  on  September  11,  1848,  in 
his  43d  year. 

He  married,  on  April  9,  1834,  Mehitable,  daughter  of 
Caleb  and  Mehitable  (Pope)  Oakes,  of  Danvers,  who  died 
in  Salem  on  August  2,  1895,  in  her  87th  year. 

Their  children  were  a  daughter  and  two  sons  (of  whom 
the  elder  died  in  infancy). 

CLASS    OF    1828 

Romulus  Barnes,  son  of  Captain  Daniel  Barnes,  was 
born  in  Bristol,  Connecticut,  on  October  16,  1800. 

His  father  died  in  his  boyhood,  and  he  was  brought  up 
in  Canton.  He  became  a  Christian  about  1816,  and  formed 
the  purpose  of  becoming"  a  minister. 

For  the  three  years  after  graduation  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  he  was  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  New  Haven  East  Association  on  August  10,  1830. 
Meantime  he  had  joined  the  Yale  Band  for  the  religious 
development  of  Illinois,  and  with  others  of  the  Band  was 
ordained  as  an  Evangelist  at  Guilford  on  March  22,  183 1, 
by  the  East  Association.  He  shortly  after  married  Olivia 
Denham,  of  Conway,  Massachusetts,  who  survived  him. 
without  children. 


lS2  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  ministerial  life  was  spent  in  Illinois,  in  the  employ  of 
the  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  his  longest  period 
of  service  being  in  connection  with  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Washington,  Tazewell  County,  from  October,  1835,  to 
1843.  From  Washington  he  went  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Downer's  Grove,  in  connection  with  the  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Newark,  Kendall  County,  where  he  died 
on  September  24,  1846,  at  the  age  of  46. 

George  Beecher,  third  son  of  the  Rev.  Lyman  Beecher 
(Yale  1797)  and  Roxana  (Foote)  Beecher,  of  East  Hamp- 
ton, Long  Island,  was  born  on  May  6,  1809.  His  father 
removed  to  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  in  his  infancy,  and  to 
Boston  in  March,  1826. 

He  taught  for  two  years  in  Groton,  Massachusetts,  and 
then  spent  two  years  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  being 
licensed  to  preach  in  August,  1832. 

In  October  and  November,  1832,  he  accompanied  the 
family  in  his  father's  removal  to  Cincinnati ;  and  on  Octo- 
ber 2,  1833,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Batavia,  twenty  miles  east  of 
Cincinnati. 

On  July  13,  1837,  he  married  Sarah  Sturges,  the  eldest 
child  of  Ebenezer  and  Eunice  (Hale)  Buckingham,  of  Put- 
nam, a  suburb  of  Zanesville,  and  a  sister  of  Ebenezer 
Buckingham  (Yale  1848). 

He  was  dismissed  from  this  charge  in  February,  1838, 
and  in  March  began  preaching  to  the  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church  in  Rochester,  New  York,  over  which  he  was 
installed  on  June  28,  and  with  which  he  remained  until 
October  5,  1840.  His  wife's  health  then  required  a  change, 
and  he  went  without  delay  to  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  which  had  recently  been  organ- 
ized by  a  body  of  friends  of  his  who  had  while  he  was  still 
in  Batavia  desired  him  as  pastor. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 828  183 

On  July  2,  1843,  h^  went  into  his  garden  with  a  gun,  to 
frighten  away  the  birds  that  were  destroying  the  fruit 
and  buds;  and  was  found  Hfeless,  with  the  gun,  by  whose 
accidental  discharge  he  had  fallen,  lying  at  his  side. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  daughter,  and  one  son, 
who  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1861. 

A  volume  of  Biographical  Remains  was  published  in  1844, 
with  a  sketch  of  his  life  by  his  sister  Catharine. 

George  Frederick  Bull,  of  New  York  City,  was  born 
in  1810. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
married  in  1833. 

Having  lost  his  wife  and  child,  he  removed  to  Chicago 
about  1842. 

He  is  said  to  have  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  war  with 
Mexico,  and  to  have  been  present  at  the  occupation  of 
Santa  Fe  in  August,  1846,  as  private  secretary  of  the  com- 
manding officer. 

Nothing  later  is  known  of  him,  except  an  unverified 
rumor  that  he  died  in  South  America  in  1877. 

Benjamin  Silas  Bynum,  of  Natchez,  Mississippi, 
entered  Yale  from  Transylvania  University,  in  Lexington, 
Kentucky,  at  the  opening  of  Senior  year. 

He  died  in  Port  Gibson,  Mississippi,  in  September,  1830, 
at  the  age  of  23. 

Walter  Carpenter  was  a  native  of  that  part  of  Hunt- 
ington, Connecticut,  which  is  now  Monroe. 

He  was  engaged  in  teaching  at  the  South  after  gradua- 
tion. He  was  not  robust  as  a  student,  and  died  in  Port 
Gibson,  Mississippi,  on  December  19,  1830,  aged  25  years. 

Charles  Chauncey,  Junior,  the  eldest  and  only  surviv- 
ing son  of  Charles  Chauncey  (Yale  1792),  of  Philadelphia, 
was  born  on  August  14,  1809. 


184  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  Studied  law  in  his  father's  office  and  was  about  to  be 
admitted  to  the  bar  when  he  fell  a  victim  to  consumption. 
He  died  at  his  father's  summer  residence,  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  on  August  16,  1831,  at  the  age  of  22. 

Rodney  Curtiss,  second  son  of  Leverett  and  Ruth 
(Barnes)  Curtiss,  of  Southington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  26,  1803,  and  entered  Yale  in  1825. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School ;  but 
towards  the  close  of  the  first  year  of  the  course  was 
obliged  to  return  home  in  broken  health.  He  died  in 
Southington,  about  one  week  later,  on  August  18,  1829,  in 
his  26th  year. 

Peter  Cornelius  DeWint,  Junior,  entered  Yale  from 
Fishkill,  New  York,  in  1825. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  New  York  City,  and  on  August 
18,  1831,  was  married  to  Mary  P.  Caldwell,  then  of  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  but  formerly  of  Newburgh,  New 
York. 

He  died  very  suddenly  in  New  York,  three  months  later, 
on  November  16,  1831,  aged  25  years. 

George  Henry  Douglas,  the  second  son  of  Alanson  and 
Ann  (Sutherland)  Douglas,  of  Lansingburg,  New  York, 
was  born  on  September  13,  1809.  The  family  removed  in 
181 3  to  Troy.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1822.  He 
entered  Union  College  in  1824,  and  Yale  a  year  later. 
Towards  the  end  of  his  Senior  year  he  joined  the  College 
Church,  and  then  decided  on  the  Presbyterian  ministry  as 
his  vocation. 

While  in  College  he  suffered  severely  from  dyspepsia,  and 
for  the  winter  after  graduation  he  remained  at  home,  hop- 
ing to  regain  his  health.  As  there  was  no  improvement, 
after  a  few  years  he  spent  a  winter  in  South  America,  at 
Cartagena,  Colombia. 


YALE   COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 828  185 

In  August,  1837,  while  at  home  in  Troy,  he  was  seized 
with  a  bihous  fever,  and  died  on  September  i,  at  the  age 
of  28.     He  was  never  married. 

David  Robinson  Downer,  the  youngest  son  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Robinson)  Downer,  of  Westfield,  New  Jersey, 
was  born  on  August  2,  1808. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Auburn  Theological  Semi- 
nary, where  he  spent  three  years. 

On  March  25,  1832,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  by 
the  Third  Presbytery  of  New  York  as  pastor  of  the  Car- 
mine Street  (or  West)  Presbyterian  Church,  a  new  organi- 
zation in  New  York  City,  which  under  his  ministry  grew 
rapidly  in  membership  and  importance. 

He  married,  on  April  18,  1833,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Joel 
and  Sarah  (Brown)  Say  re,  of  New  York. 

The  progress  of  consumption  caused  him  to  resign  his 
charge  in  October,  1841,  when  he  removed  to  his  native 
town,  where  he  died  of  pneumonia  on  the  28th  of  the  fol- 
lowing month,  in  his  34th  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  on  July  9, 
1886,  in  her  71st  year.  Their  children  were  three  sons,  of 
whom  the  eldest  was  graduated  at  Williams  College  in 
1855- 

Sherman  Finch  was  a  native  of  that  part  of  New 
Canaan  formerly  included  in  Stamford,  Connecticut. 

He  studied  law  and  began  practice  in  Delaware,  Ohio,  in 
1833.  In  1861  his  wife  died,  and  he  removed  to  Minne- 
sota, where  his  children  settled. 

His  residence  was  mainly  iu  Mankato,  where  he  opened 
a  law  office  in  1862.  In  1867  he  removed  to  a  farm  in  the 
suburbs.  He  died  in  St.  Paul,  on  March  23,  1873,  aged 
70  years. 

Henry  Gleason,  the  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Holmes) 
Gleason,  was  born  in  Thompson,  Windham  County,  Con- 


1 86  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

necticut,  on  September  ii,  1802,  and  entered  College  at  the 
opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

During  the  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  an  academy 
in  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from  1829 
to  1832,  and  was  ordained  and  installed  on  August  22,  1832, 
as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Durham, 
Connecticut. 

On  October  27,  1832,  he  married  Cynthia  S.  Vander- 
voort,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

His  brief  pastorate  in  Durham  endeared  him  to  his  people. 
In  June,  1838,  he  was  obliged  by  failing  health  to  suspend 
his  work,  but  in  December  resumed  his  labors,  and  con- 
tinued them  until  the  middle  of  August,  1839,  when  he  was 
attacked  with  typhus  fever.  He  died  in  Durham  on 
September  16,  at  the  age  of  37. 

His  children  were  three  sons  and  a  daughter. 

HiRAM  HoLCOMB  was  born  in  Southwick,  Hampden 
County,  Massachusetts,  on  January  4,  1804. 

He  taught  for  some  years  in  the  South,  with  the  result 
that  his  health  was  seriously  impaired.  For  two  years 
(1833-35)  he  was  enrolled  as  a  student  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven 
East  Association  on  August  5,  1834,  and  remained  here. 

He  died  in  New  Haven  on  May  i,  1840,  aged  36  years. 
He  was  never  married.  Having  been  prevented  from 
preaching  in  his  own  person,  he  left  the  residue  of  his 
estate,  amounting  to  about  $1,800,  after  providing  for  near 
relatives,  to  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  He  was  buried  in 
the  College  lot  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 

Peter  Lanman  Huntington,  the  youngest  child  of 
Deacon  Jabez  Huntington  (Yale  1784)  and  Mary  (Lan- 
man) Huntington,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  16,  1809.     In  his  Junior  year  he  became  a  Chris- 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1828  187 

tian,  and  resolved  to  devote  himself  to  the  work  of  the 
ministry. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Natchez,  Mississippi,  to 
teach  in  a  family,  with  the  object  of  earning  money  to 
prosecute  his  studies,  and  returned  in  1830  to  enter  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary;  but  the  results  of  a  fall 
from  a  carriage,  before  going  South,  so  affected  his  spine 
and  entire  nervous  system,  that  he  was  obliged  to  abandon 
his  studies  after  a  few  months,  and  return  home,  where  he 
died,  unmarried,  on  December  24,  1832,  in  his  26th  year. 

Joseph  Jenkins,  the  only  son  of  Colonel  Joseph  Jenkins, 
of  Boston,  was  born  on  August  i,  1808. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Haven  bar  in  March,  183 1. 

He  opened  a  law-office  in  Boston,  and  married,  in  August, 
1 83 1,  Mary  P.,  daughter  of  Deacon  Nathaniel  and  Hannah 
(Parker)  Willis,  and  sister  of  Nathaniel  P.  Willis  (Yale 
1827). 

His  life  was  spent  in  Boston,  with  the  exception  of  a 
few  months  in  New  Orleans ;  though  he  did  not  remain  in 
full  practice. 

He  died  in  Boston  on  November  5,  1843,  in  his  36th  year. 

His  children  were  two  daughters  and  a  son. 

James  Davis  Lewis,  the  second  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Sarah  (Hatch)  Lewis,  of  Falmouth,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  December  28,  1808. 

He  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1829, 
and  completed  the  three  years'  course. 

On  June  4,  1834,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  in  the  North  Parish  of 
Reading,  now  the  town  of  North  Reading,  Massachusetts, 
but  took  a  dismission  on  May  10,  1836. 

He  then  took  charge  of  a  girls'  school  in  Schenectady, 
New  York;    but  soon  returned  at  his  parents'   desire  to 


IS5  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Falmouth.  la  October,  1840,  he  became  acting  pastor  of 
the  Second  Congregational  Church,  in  East  Falmouth,  over 
which  he  was  regularly  installed  in  1842.  In  1846  he  was 
obliged  by  the  failure  of  his  health  to  retire  permanently 
from  the  ministry.  He  then  spent  five  years  in  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  where  he  studied  law,  hoping  to  remain 
there  and  assist  his  brother,  who  was  a  lawyer;  but  a 
severe  illness  hastened  his  return  to  Falmouth. 

He  was  still  able  to  be  useful  in  various  ways,  especially 
as  a  member  of  the  school  committee  of  the  town ;  but  about 
the  first  of  April,  1854,  he  was  attacked  with  typhoid  fever, 
and  died  on  May  7,  in  his  46th  year. 

He  married  Eunice  R.,  daughter  of  Captain  Weston  and 
Elizabeth  (Robinson)  Jenkins,  of  Falmouth,  who  survived 
him  with  two  daughters. 

VoLNEY  Metcalfe  was  a  native  of  Natchez,  Mississippi. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
183 1.     He  then  went  to  Paris,  and  pursued  further  study. 

He  settled  in  Natchez  as  a  physician,  and  rose  to  emi- 
nence in  that  region. 

He  died  from  yellow  fever  on  his  plantation,  opposite 
Natchez,  in  September,  1852,  in  his  48th  year. 

He  married  in  1843  Annie  Wood,  of  Kentucky.  They 
had  four  children. 

Alexander  Youngs  Nicoll,  of  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  entered  Yale  in  1825. 

He  studied  medicine  in  New  York  City,  and  settled  in 
practice  in  Savannah,  Georgia.  In  1836  he  commanded  a 
volunteer  company  in  the  Seminole  war. 

He  died  in  Savannah  in  August,  1839,  in  his  33d  year. 

John  Otis  Payson,  son  of  Deacon  John  Howe  and 
Amaryllis   (Payne)   Payson,  of  Pom  fret,  Connecticut,  was 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 828  189 

born  on  September  5,  1807.     A  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1819. 

For  a  part  of  a  year  he  taught  in  Ashford,  but  was  ham- 
pered by  ill-health.  In  1829  he  entered  the  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  was  able  to  attend  to  all  his  work. 
On  January  24,  1830,  without  previous  warning,  the  rupture 
of  a  blood-vessel  in  the  brain  caused  his  death,  which 
occurred  the  next  day,  in  his  23d  year.  He  was  buried  in 
Andover. 

Silas  May  Penniman,  son  of  Elkanah  and  Lucy  Child 
(May)  Penniman,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
March  4,  1806. 

After  graduation  he  taught  at  the  South  for  a  year. 
During  the  next  year  and  a  half,  he  taught  in  Baltimore 
and  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut. 

In  April,  1831,  he  assumed  the  position  of  schoolmaster 
and  acting  chaplain  on  the  United  States  ship  Falmouth, 
which  was  just  starting  on  a  voyage  around  the  world. 

The  vessel  remained  at  Rio  Janeiro  for  several  months, 
and  then  had  a  long  and  stormy  passage  around  Cape  Horn, 
during  which  he  took  a  severe  cold.  His  condition  was  so 
serious  that  he  was  transferred  at  Callao,  in  February,  1833, 
to  the  United  States  frigate  Potomac,  bound  for  Valparaiso, 
Chile,  where  he  died,  of  pneumonia,  on  March  25,  1833, 
at  the  age  of  27. 

Francis  Porter,  the  eldest  child  of  Epaphras  and  Lucre- 
tia  (Huntington)  Porter,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  March  24,  1807,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1839. 

He  took  charge  of  an  academy  in  Harrisburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  died  of  typhus  fever,  after  an  illness  of  ten 
or  twelve  days,  unmarried,  on  September  25,  1829,  in  his 
23d  year. 


190  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Thomas  Robinson,  son  of  William  Robinson,  of  South- 
port  village,  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  April, 
1805. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1830,  settling  in  Southport,  with  his  office  in 
Fairfield. 

He  was  Judge  of  Probate  for  the  Fairfield  District  for 
1836  and  1837,  and  in  1838  became  Clerk  of  the  Supreme, 
Superior  and  County  Courts,  and  held  the  office  (except  for 
one  year)  to  1852. 

He  was  a  representative  of  Fairfield  in  the  General 
Assembly  in  1841,  1844,  and  1847. 

In  1847  he  removed  to  Nor  walk,  and  in  1853  was  again  a 
representative.  He  was  also  in  the  spring  of  1853  the 
unsuccessful  Whig  candidate  for  Secretary  of  State. 

He  died  very  suddenly,  of  disease  of  the  heart,  in  Nor- 
walk,  on  October  29,  1853,  in  his  49th  year,  and  was  buried 
in  Southport. 

He  married,  on  July  8,  1834,  Elizabeth  Perry,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Catharine  (Sherwood)  Dimon,  of  Southport, 
who  died  on  June  24,  1866,  aged  47  years.  Their  children 
were  two  sons,  both  of  whom  died  in  early  life. 

Horatio  Nelson  Smith  came  to  College  from  Natchez, 
Mississippi. 

He  began  the  study  of  law,  but  abandoned  it  and  spent 
his  life  on  his  plantation  near  Woodville,  thirty  miles  south 
of  Natchez.  For  many  years  before  his  death  he  was  a 
Ruling  Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church, 

He  died  in  Woodville,  on  March  5,  1854,  in  his  47th  year. 

He  married,  in  Natchez,  on  February  5,  1832,  Helen 
Dunlop,  by  whom  he  had  five  children.  The  eldest  son  was 
graduated  at  Oakland  College,  Mississippi,  in  1857. 

Edwin  Stevens  was  born  in  New  Canaan,  Connecticut, 
on  July  4,  1802. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1828  191 

After  spending  a  year  in  teaching,  he  began  the  study  of 
theology  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1829,  and  in  the  fall 
of  1 83 1  entered  on  a  tutorship  in  the  College.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East  Association  on 
August  15,  1 83 1. 

On  June  7,  1832,  he  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  in  New 
Haven,  preparatory  to  accepting  an  appointment  by  the 
American  Seamen's  Friend  Society  as  chaplain  to  seamen 
in  Canton,  China.  He  arrived  in  Canton  in  October,  1832, 
and  fulfilled  his  duties  acceptably  until  the  end  of  1835,  when 
he  transferred  his  services  to  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions,  in  accordance  with  an 
arrangement  made  when  he  left  home.  He  continued  in 
Canton,  and  on  December  3,  1836,  left  on  a  missionary  tour 
among  the  islands  of  the  Indian  Archipelago.  He  arrived 
in  Singapore  on  the  15th,  and  was  at  once  seized  with  a 
fever,  of  which  he  died  on  January  5,  1837,  i"  '^'s  35th  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

George  Washington  Strong,  the  eighth  in  a  family  of 
eleven  children  of  Judah  and  Jerusha  (Warner)  Strong,  of 
Bolton,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  18,  1806,  and 
entered  Yale  after  the  opening  of  Freshman  year. 

He  died  in  Bolton  on  September  6,  1829,  in  his  24th  year. 

Robert  Tolefree,  Junior,  entered  College  from  New 
York  City  soon  after  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  settled  in  New  York  as  a  prac- 
ticing physician. 

In  1836  he  was  elected  Professor  of  Experimental 
Sciences  in  Randolph-Macon  College,  Mecklenburg  County, 
Virginia;  whence  he  went,  in  February,  1840,  to  the  chair 
of  Chemistry  and  Natural  Philosophy  in  Mercer  University, 
Macon,  Georgia. 

He  subsequently  studied  law,  and  engaged  in  practice  in 
Monticello,  Georgia. 


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He  died  in  1850,  aged  45  years. 

He  married,  in  1838,  Amelia  Meriwether,  of  Virginia,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons  (one  of  whom  died  early)  and  two 
daughters. 

Henry  Abraham  Tomlinson,  son  of  Dr.  Charles  and 
Susan  (Hill)  Tomlinson,  of  Stratford,  Connecticut,  was 
born  in  1806,  and  entered  the  Class  in  1826. 

He  studied  medicine  in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1832. 

On  November  28,  1832,  he  married  Maria  B.,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Eli  Ives  (Yale  1799),  of  New  Haven. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  New  Haven,  and  was  very  highly 
esteemed.  He  died  of  consumption  in  New  Haven  on 
August  18,  1840,  in  his  34th  year.  His  widow  died  of  con- 
sumption in  New  Haven  on  November  11,  1854,  in  her  44th 
year.  Of  their  five  children  only  two  survived  them, — a 
son,  who  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1858,  and  a  daughter, 
who  married  James  M.  Hubbard  (Yale  1859). 

Coburn  Whitehead  entered  College  in  1825  from 
Philadelphia. 

He  studied  medicine  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1831. 

He  then  settled  in  practice  in  Philadelphia. 

He  retired  after  about  twenty  years,  and  died  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1858,  at  the  age  of  50. 

He  married,  on  April  7,  1832,  and  had  three  sons  and  a 
daughter. 

Robert  Hammett  Wickham  entered  College  from 
Philadelphia. 

He  returned  to  Philadelphia  after  graduation,  and  died 
there  in  1837,  at  the  age  of  28. 

Sidney  Brainerd  Willey,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Hon. 
Calvin  and  Sally  (Brainerd)  Willey,  of  Staflford,  Connect!- 


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cut,  was  born  on  March  14,  1807.  In  his  infancy  the  family 
removed  to  Tolland.  His  father  was  United  States  Senator 
from  Connecticut  from  1825  to  1831. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  in  183 1  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  the  Yale  Medical  School. 

On  June  19,  1831,  he  married  Lucretia  Bacon,  daughter  of 
Oliver  and  Damaris  (Howe)  Green,  of  East  Haddam. 

He  began  practice  in  Penn  Yan,  New  York,  and  removed 
about  1842  to  Brooklyn,  where  he  died  on  April  13,  1853, 
in  his  47th  year. 

His  children  were  four  sons  and  a  daughter.  Of  the  sons, 
the  youngest,  the  only  one  surviving  infancy,  followed  his 
father's  profession. 

Horace  Woodruff,  son  of  Solomon  Woodruff,  of  Farm- 
ington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  November  5,  1803. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Huntington,  Long  Island. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Divinity  School  from  1830 
to  1832,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East 
Association  on  August  15,  1831. 

On  August  22,  1832,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Orange,  New  Haven 
County,  where  he  remained  until  June.  1836. 

He  married,  on  September  12,  1832,  Charlotte  R.,  daugh- 
ter of  Conklin  Gould,  of  Huntington,  Long  Island. 

In  the  summer  of  1836  he  removed  to  Prattsburg,  Steuben 
County,  New  York,  where  he  took  charge  of  the  Franklin 
Academy.  He  was  obliged  to  give  up  this  position  in  the 
spring  of  1839,  his  health  having  been  impaired  by  an  attack 
of  bilious  fever. 

He  then  removed  to  Huntington,  where  he  opened  a 
family  boarding-school,  which  he  continued  until  1847.  He 
had  long  been  deeply  interested  in  the  temperance  cause,  and 
the  rest  of  his  life,  so  far  as  feeble  health  permitted,  was 
largely  devoted  to  this  work.  He  acted  as  Agent  and  Sec- 
retary of  the  Suffolk  County  Temperance  Society,  until  his 

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194  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

sudden  death,  in  Huntington,  on  February  i8,  1858,  in  his 
55th  year. 

His  wife  long  survived  him. 

Henry  Aiken  Worcester,  the  sixth  son  in  a  family  of 
fifteen  children  of  Jesse  and  Sarah  (Parker)  Worcester,  of 
Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  on  September  25,  1802, 
and  entered  Yale  in  1826.  A  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1811. 

He  studied  theology,  in  part  (1830-31)  in  the  Yale  Divin- 
ity School,  but  early  united  with  the  New  Jerusalem  Church 
(Swedenborgian),  of  which  his  uncle,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Worcester,  was  a  leading  minister. 

He  preached  to  the  New  Jerusalem  Church  in  Abington, 
Massachusetts,  during  the  winter  of  1833  and  spring  of 
1834.  In  November,  1837,  having  received  ordination,  he 
took  charge  of  the  church  in  Portland,  Maine,  which  he 
served  until  his  death  there  on  May  24,  1841,  in  his  39th 
year. 

He  married,  on  August  26,  1838,  Olive,  daughter  of  Rufus 
Gay,  of  Gardiner,  Maine,  who  long  survived  him.  Their 
children  were  a  son  and  a  daughter. 


CLASS  OF    1829 

George  Henry  Apthorp,  the  eldest  child  of  George 
Henry  and  Anna  (Perkins)  Apthorp,  of  Quincy,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  in  Quincy  on  May  31,  1798,  and  entered  soon 
after  the  opening  of  Freshman  year.  He  had  previously 
had  experience  as  a  teacher  and  of  mercantile  life.  His 
brother  entered  the  same  Class  from  Harvard  College  at 
the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

In  the  latter  part  of  his  Senior  year  he  became  a  Christian, 
and  on  graduation  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,   where   he   completed   the   course   in    1832.      In 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 829  1 95 

September,  1830,  he  had  given  himself  to  the  work  of  a 
foreign  missionary,  and  on  June  16,  1832,  he  was  ordained 
as  an  EvangeHst  by  the  Presbytery  of  East  Hanover. 

He  then  served  for  a  time  as  an  agent  of  the  American 
Board  in  Virginia,  where  he  married  Mary  Robertson,  of 
Richmond;  and  in  July,  1833,  he  embarked  for  Ceylon  as  a 
missionary  of  the  Board.  For  the  first  two  years  he  was 
stationed  at  Panditeripo,  and  then  at  Varany,  until  obliged 
to  remove  to  a  station  near  the  sea  on  account  of  his  wife's 
health.  They  had  only  just  settled  in  their  new  station,  at 
Oodoopitty,  when  he  was  attacked  with  typhus  fever,  of 
which  he  died,  after  two  weeks'  illness,  on  June  8,  1844, 
at  the  age  of  46. 

His  widow  remained  in  connection  with  the  mission,  until 
her  death,  in  Panditeripo,  on  September  3,  1849. 

They  had  no  children. 

Oliver  Baker,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Bush) 
Baker,  of  Bolton,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts,  was 
baptized  on  September  2J,  1801.  The  family  removed  in 
his  infancy  to  Templeton,  in  the  same  county,  where  the 
father  died  in  June,  1825.  A  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  183 1. 

In  183 1  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
and  a  year  later  transferred  himself  to  the  Yale  Divinity 
School.  While  still  a  member  of  this  School,  he  died  in 
Rahway,  New  Jersey,  on  March  15,  1834,  in  his  33d  year. 

Charles  Jacob  Baltzell,  of  Baltimore,  entered  College 
at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Baltimore,  and  died  there,  of 
t3'phoid  fever,  in  1849,  in  his  42d  year. 

John  Francis  Boardman,  the  youngest  child  of  Major 
Daniel  Boardman  (Yale  1781),  of  New  York  City,  was  born 


196  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

in  New  York  in  July,  1812,  and  entered  College  at  the 
opening  of  Junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia, 
receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege in  1836. 

He  then  practiced  his  profession  in  New  York  City,  until 
he  went  abroad  on  account  of  his  health.  He  died  of  con- 
sumption, in  Rome,  Italy,  on  November  20,  1847,  in  his  36th 
year.     He  was  never  married. 

Thomas  Bronson,  the  fourth  son  of  Judge  Bennet  Bron- 
son  (Yale  1797),  of  Waterbury,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
Waterbury  on  June  4,  1808. 

On  leaving  College  he  opened  a  school  in  East  Windsor, 
but  was  soon  taken  violently  ill  with  rheumatic  fever. 
When  his  health  was  reestablished,  he  began  the  study  of 
law,  and  in  1832-33  was  enrolled  in  the  Yale  Law  School. 
Subsequently  he  resolved  to  study  for  the  ministry,  and 
entered  in  1833  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  removing  in  1835 
to  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  for  the  final  year  of 
his  course. 

He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East  Asso- 
ciation on  August  5,  1834,  and  on  February  13,  1839,  he 
was  married  to  Cynthia  Elizabeth,  elder  daughter  of 
Cyrus  M.  and  Betsey  (McCall)  Bartlett,  of  Hartford.  He 
preached  occasionally  for  several  years  in  New  England  and 
New  York,  and  in  1843  went  to  Virginia,  and  for  four  years 
taught  in  Smithfield,  Isle  of  Wight  County. 

He  then  removed  to  Quincy,  Illinois,  where  also  he  was 
occupied  as  a  teacher,  until  February,  185 1,  when  he 
returned  to  his  native  town,  where  he  died  of  a  rheumatic 
affection  of  the  heart,  on  April  20,  in  his  43d  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Hartford,  on  June  26,  1852,  in  her 
37th  year. 

Their  children  were  one  daughter  and  two  sons.  The 
younger  son  was  graduated  here  in  1865. 


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Bernard  Moore  Carter,  son  of  Bernard  Moore  Carter, 
of  Fauquier  County,  Virginia,  and  grandson  of  Charles  and 
Anne  Butler  (Moore)  Carter,  was  born  in  1811.  His 
mother  was  Lucy  Grymes,  daughter  of  General  Henry  and 
Matilda  (Lee)  Lee.     He  entered  Yale  in  1828. 

He  died  in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  in  1878. 

He  was  never  married. 

Fairfax  Catlett,  a  son  of  Charles  J.  Catlett,  of  Alex- 
andria, Virginia,  entered  College  soon  after  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year.  His  mother  was  Anne,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Bryan,  eighth  Baron  Fairfax,  of  Alexandria. 

In  1843  he  went  to  Egypt  for  his  health,  but  died  in 
Cairo,  on  April  12,  aged  about  34  years. 

Albert  Sinclair  Covvles,  son  of  Solomon  Cowles,  of 
Farmington,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Farmington  in  1810. 
On  entering  College  his  name  was  given  as  Albert  Solomon 
Cowles. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar,  but  did  not  engage  in  practice. 

In  1833  he  removed  to  Ohio,  and  followed  a  mercantile 
career  until  1850,  when  feeble  health  obliged  him  to  return 
to  his  native  town,  where  he  resided  on  the  paternal  estate 
until  his  death. 

He  died,  from  apoplexy,  in  Hartford,  on  November  22, 
1857,  in  his  48th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Robert  Dixon,  of  Greenville,  Washington  County.  Mis- 
sissippi, was  born  in  1806  or  1807. 

He  resided  in  Natchez,  and  died  there  about  1851-52. 

Aaron  Hardy  Dutch  was  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Dutch  (Brown  Univ.  1776),  who  was  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  in  (East)  Bradford,  now  Groveland. 
Massachusetts,  from  1779  to  his  death  in  1813.  He  was 
named  for  Aaron  Hardy  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1794),  a  Boston 


19^  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

merchant,  born  in  Bradford,  who  had  married  in  1803  his 
half-sister. 

His  mother  was  Phebe  Eaton,  who  married  for  a  second 
husband,  in  181 5,  Major  Earl  Clapp,  of  (East)  Woodstock, 
Connecticut.  He  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sopho- 
more year,  being  wholly  dependent  on  charity. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  West  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  died  in  1830. 

Benjamin  Edwards,  from  Brookhaven,  Long  Island, 
entered  College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  completed  the  final  examinations  of  the  course  in 
July,  1829,  but  died  at  his  father's  house  in  Brookhaven, 
after  a  distressing  illness  of  four  days,  on  August  10,  at 
the  age  of  22.  At  Commencement  his  name  was  enrolled 
with  the  graduating  class  by  vote  of  the  Corporation. 

Joseph  Merrick  Ely,  youngest  child  of  Captain  Darius 
and  Margaret  (Ashley)  Ely,  of  West  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  on  January  15,  1802. 

He  taught  a  classical  school  in  New  York  City  for  twenty- 
five  years,  about  1835-60. 

He  married  in  Owego,  New  York,  on  August  7,  1834, 
Juliette  Marie,  second  daughter  of  the  late  William  and 
Abigail  (Whittlesey)  Camp,  of  Owego,  by  whom  he  had 
five  sons  and  two  daughters. 

He  died  in  Athens,  Bradford  County,  Pennsylvania,  on 
November  13,  1873,  in  his  72d  year. 

William  Lord  Fisk,  of  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  entered 
College  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Medical  School,  and 
after  being  enrolled  there  for  four  years,  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  the  spring  of  1833. 

He  attended  the  exercises  of  Commencement  week  in 
New  Haven  in  1834,  and  was  drowned  while  bathing,  near 


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the  end  of  Long  Wharf,  on  Saturday  evening,  August  22, 
in  his  25th  year.  He  is  buried  in  the  College  lot  in  the  New 
Haven  Cemetery. 

Matthew  James  Gilbert,  the  only  surviving  son  of  Dr. 
James  Gilbert  (Yale  1800),  of  New  Haven,  who  married 
Grace  Mix  in  September,  1808,  and  died  in  1818,  was  bap- 
tized by  the  name  of  Matthew  on  November  12,  1809. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  removed  to 
Columbus,  Ohio,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1831. 

He  went  subsequently  to  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  died  on  May  25,  1848,  in  his  39th  year. 

He  married  in  Columbus,  on  August  14,  1838,  Lucy  T., 
second  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Perrin)  Baldwin,  of 
New  Haven,  and  sister  of  Michael  Baldwin  (Yale  1833) 
and  William  B.  Baldwin  (Yale  1837).  She  long  survived 
her  husband. 

Richard  Sill  Griswold,  the  son  of  George  Griswold,  a 
wealthy  New-York  merchant,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
in  1809.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Woodhull,  sister  of 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Selah  Strong  Woodhull  (Yale  1802).  He  was 
a  first  cousin  of  George  Griswold  (Yale  1824). 

He  followed  a  mercantile  life  in  New  York  for  a  short 
time,  and  then  retired  to  his  ancestral  home  in  Lyme,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  established  himself  as  a  gentleman- 
farmer. 

He  died  in  Hartford  on  April  2,  1849,  in  his  40th  year. 

He  married,  on  May  25,  1835,  Louisa  Griswold.  daughter 
of  James  and  Caroline  (Tucker)  Mather,  of  Lyme,  who 
died  on  March  21,  1840,  in  her  25th  year,  leaving  no  chil- 
dren. He  next  married,  on  May  30,  1841.  her  younger 
sister  Augusta,  who  long  survived  him.  By  her  ho  had 
two  daughters  and  a  son. 

Asa  Josiah  Hinckley,  the  second  son  of  Asa  and 
Bethiah    (Leach)    Hinckley,   of    Lebanon   and    Mansfield, 


200  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Connecticut,  was  born  in  Lebanon  on  September  17,  1805. 
His  father  died  in  1809,  and  his  mother  married  in  1817 
Simeon  Woodruff.     He  entered  College  from  Mansfield. 

In  1830  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he 
completed  the  course  in  1833.  He  was  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  New  London  Association  in  1832.  but  did  not  follow 
the  profession. 

He  married  Abba  Ann  Jepson  in  1833,  and  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Mansfield,  where  he  died  on  December  12,  1850, 
in  his  46th  year. 

His  children  were  two  daughters  and  a  son. 

John  Mills  Hubbard  was  a  son  of  John  Hubbard,  of 
Wintonbury  Parish  in  Windsor,  now  Bloomfield,  Connect- 
icut, and  grandson  of  John  and  Susannah  (Mills)  Hubbard, 
of  Wintonbury. 

After  teaching  for  a  while  in  Maryland,  he  studied  medi- 
cine, and  settled  in  Mississippi. 

George  [Noble]  Jones,  a  son  of  Noble  Wimberley  Jones, 
of  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  grandson  of  George  Jones, 
United  States  Senator  from  Georgia,  was  born  in  Savannah 
on  May  25,  181 1.  His  mother  was  Sarah  Campbell,  of 
Charleston,  South  Carolina.  He  entered  Yale  in  1828. 
After  leaving  College  he  assumed  a  middle  name,  in  honor 
of  his  great-great-grandfather,  Colonel  Noble  Jones,  who 
came  to  America  with  General  Oglethorpe  in  1733. 

He  inherited  from  his  ancestors  extensive  cotton  planta- 
tions in  Georgia,  and  spent  most  of  his  lifetime  in  Europe, 
where  he  could  gratify  his  taste  for  study  and  research. 
His  permanent  residence  continued  in  Savannah,  and  while 
in  this  country  his  summers  were  spent  for  many  years  in 
Newport,  Rhode  Island. 

He  married,  in  Savannah,  on  May  25,  1840,  Mary,  only 
surviving  child  of  Thomas  Savage  (Yale  1792),  of  Bryan 
County,  Georgia,  and  widow  of  William  B.  Nuttall. 


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He  died  in  Jefferson  County,  Florida,  in  May.  1876,  at 
the  ag-e  of  65. 

His  eldest  son  became  a  lawyer  in  Savannah,  and  another 
son  was  United  States  Consul-General  to  Italy. 

George  Richards  Lew^is,  son  of  James  and  Harriet 
Lewis,  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  New 
London  on  May  25,  1809.  His  mother  was  a  sister  of  Guy 
Richards  (Yale  1807).  He  entered  the  Class  with  an 
elder  brother  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  spent  his  life  in  New  London,  occupied  with  agricul- 
ture and  manufactures.  Several  years  were  spent  in  for- 
eign travel. 

He  died  in  New  London  on  June  18,  1853,  in  his  45th  year. 

He  married  Mary  H.  Chew,  of  New  London,  and  had 
three  daughters  and  one  son. 

William  John  Mastin  was  born  in  Frederick  County, 
Virginia,  on  November  15,  1808.  The  family  removed  to 
Huntsville,  Alabama,  in  1819. 

He  spent  his  life  in  Huntsville,  engaged  in  mercantile 
business,  and  died  there  on  November  14,  1845,  at  the  age 

of  37- 

His  widow  and  several  children  survived  him. 

George  Salmon  Meredith  entered  College  at  the  open- 
ing of  Junior  year  from  Baltimore,  when  about  18  years 
of  age. 

After  graduation  he  went  West,  and  studied  law. 

He  is  said  to  have  met  an  accidental  death  by  drowning  in 
Michigan  about  1843. 

CoNSTANTiNE  TiiEODORE  Ralli.  SOU  of  Theodore  and 
Mary  Ralli,  was  born  in  the  island  of  Scio,  Greece,  in  1808 
or  1809.  The  family  were  driven  from  their  home  by  tht 
Turkish   massacres    in    1822,    and   through    the    advice   of 


202  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

American  missionaries  he  and  a  younger  brother  (Yale 
1830)  were  sent  to  America  for  education.  He  entered 
Amherst  College  in  1826,  and  after  one  year  there  came 
to  Yale. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Paris,  and  received 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Civil  Law. 

He  became  a  merchant,  and  in  1853  was  living  in  London. 

He  is  said  to  have  died  in  1881  or  1882. 

Tapping  Burr  Reeve,  the  only  child  of  Aaron  Burr 
Reeve  (Yale  1802),  was  born  on  August  16,  1809,  in  Troy, 
New  York,  where  his  father  died  sixteen  days  later.  His 
mother  married  again,  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  in  1812,  but 
he  was  brought  up  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  the  home  of 
his  grandfather.  Judge  Tapping  Reeve. 

He  died  in  Litchfield  on  August  28,  1829,  at  the  age  of 
20,  and  was  buried  there.  His  name  was  enrolled  among 
the  graduates  at  the  ensuing  Commencement. 

William  Horsey  Rogers  was  born  in  Newcastle,  Dela- 
ware, in  1810,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of  the 
Junior  year  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  proba- 
bly died  about  1855. 

Nicholas  Harleston  Rutledge,  the  youngest  son  of 
Edward  and  Jane  (Harleston)  Rutledge,  of  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  was  born  in  Charleston  in  1809.  Two 
brothers  were  graduated  here,  in  1817  and  1819, 
respectively. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Charleston  in  1832. 

He  died  in  Charleston  on  November  7,  1835,  in  his  27th 
year. 

He  married  Eliza  L.  Bryan. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 829  203 

William  Bonney  Sherwood,  son  of  Joshua  Bradford 
and  Anna  (Bonney)  Sherwood,  of  Cornwall,  Connecticut, 
was  born  in  Cornwall  on  June  8,  1805.  His  College  resi- 
dence was  Nelson,  Portage  County,  Ohio,  to  which  place 
his  family  had  removed  with  a  colony  from  Cornwall  in 
his  boyhood. 

After  some  experience  in  teaching,  he  entered  the  Yale 
Divinity  School  in  1831,  and  completed  the  course  in  1834. 
On  June  24,  1834,  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Fairfield 
West  Association. 

He  devoted  his  life  to  teaching,  and  died  in  Greenwich, 
Connecticut,  after  only  one  hour's  illness,  on  April  7,  1845, 
in  his  40th  year. 

He  married  Sally  Ware. 

James  Hamilton  Shorter  entered  Yale  in  1826  from 
Eatonton,  Putnam  County,  Georgia. 

He  studied  law  after  graduation,  but  never  practiced. 
He  became  a  merchant  in  Georgia,  with  connections  in  New 
York  City. 

He  died  in  Columbus,  Muscogee  County,  Georgia,  in 
June,  1846,  at  the  age  of  39. 

George  Champlin  Tenney,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Caleb  Jewett  Tenney  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1801)  and  Ruth 
(Channing)  Tenney,  was  baptized  by  the  names  of  Samuel 
George  Champlin,  on  October  8,  1809,  by  his  father,  in 
Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  was  then  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church.  The  father  removed  in  18 16 
to  the  Congregational  Church  in  W^ethersfield,  Connecticut, 
whence  the  son  entered  College  in  1826. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Law  School  in  1830-32, 
but  his  health  soon  failed. 

He  was  committed  to  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane 
in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  in  March,  1841,  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  State  Hospital  in   Northampton  in  August, 


204  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

1858,  and  discharged  unimproved  in  August,  1875.     He  died 
in  March,  1880,  in  his  71st  year. 

Joseph  Dennie  Tyler,  son  of  Chief  Justice  Royall  Tyler 
(Harvard  1776)  and  Mary  (Palmer)  Tyler,  and  a  brother 
of  Edward  R.  Tyler  (Yale  1825),  was  born  in  Brattleboro, 
\^ermont,  on  September  4,  1804. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Episcopal  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  Virginia,  and  on  the  completion  of  his  course 
received  Deacon's  orders  from  Bishop  Moore  on  May  20, 
1832. 

Before  this  his  organs  of  hearing  and  of  articulation  had 
become  impaired  by  disease,  so  that  he  conceived  it  his  duty 
to  devote  himself  to  the  instruction  of  deaf-mutes.  Accord- 
ingly he  accepted  an  invitation  to  teach  in  the  American 
Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
and  was  so  occupied  from  the  fall  of  1832,  until  he  was 
invited  in  1839  to  become  the  Principal  of  the  kindred 
department  in  the  Virginia  Institution  for  the  Deaf,  Dumb 
and  Blind  just  established  in  Staunton.  He  began  his  work 
there  on  October  i,  1839,  and  continued  there,  successfully 
and  efficiently,  until  his  death  in  Staunton  on  January  28, 
1852,  in  his  48th  year. 

He  married,  about  the  first  of  May,  1834,  Amanda  M., 
daughter  of  Daniel  Fuller,  M.D.  (honorary  Yale  1831),  of 
Rocky  Hill  in  Wethersfield,  who  survived  him  with  five 
children. 

Alfred  Washington  VanDyke  entered  College  from 
Newcastle,  Delaware. 

His  life  was  spent  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  where  he 
died  in  1851,  aged  about  42  years. 

Henry  Augustus  Walker  was  a  son  of  Willard  Walker, 
of  Albany,  New  York.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in 
1827. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    183O  205 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Albany,  but  was  diverted 
into  a  mercantile  life  in  New  York  City. 

He  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  successful  planter  in 
Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies. 

He  died  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  on  March  26,  1854, 
aged  about  44  years. 

Sidney  Phoenix  Williams,  the  eldest  child  of  Deacon 
Eliphalet  and  Rebecca  (Phoenix)  Williams,  of  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  and  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Solomon  Wil- 
liams (Yale  1770),  was  born  on  May  9,  1810. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  1829  in  the  Yale  Medi- 
cal School,  and  continued  it  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  1833. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  on 
March  5,  1845,  in  his  35th  year. 

James  Wood  was  born  in  Waterville,  Kennebec  County, 
Maine,  on  May  5,  1808,  but  entered  College  from  Ellington, 
Connecticut. 

In  1830  he  entered  the  Yale  Medical  School,  but  died  in 
New  Haven  on  May  17,  183 1,  at  the  age  of  23  years,  and 
is  buried  in  the  College  lot  in  the  Grove  Street  Cemetery. 


CLASS    OF    1830 

John  George  Anderson  entered  College  from  St. 
Augustine,  Florida. 

He  settled  in  Tallahassee,  where  he  was  extensively  and 
prosperously  engaged  in  commerce,  as  a  partner  in  the  house 
of  Smallwood,  Anderson  &  Co.,  of  New  York  City. 

He  died  in  Tallahassee,  from  a  sudden  and  violent  par- 
oxysm of  bilious  colic,  on  March  i,  1858,  at  the  age  of  48. 

He  was  married,  and  had  children. 


2o6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

William  Nelson  Baker,  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Baker,  an  eminent  physician  of  Baltimore,  and  Professor  of 
Materia  Medica  in  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  his  wife, 
Sarah  (Dickens)  Baker,  entered  College  in  1827,  having 
been  born  on  January  17,  181 1.  A  brother  graduated  here 
in  1832. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  University  of  Maryland  in 
Baltimore,  under  his  father's  direction,  giving  special  atten- 
tion to  anatomy,  and  settled  in  practice  in  his  native  city. 
In  the  winter  of  1834-35  he  began  to  lecture  on  anatomy  to 
a  private  class,  with  so  much  success  that  in  1838  he  was 
made  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maryland.  He  died  in  office,  after  a  few  days' 
illness,  on  February  16,  1848,  in  his  31st  year. 

Alexander  Hamilton  Bishop,  the  younger  son  of  Timo- 
thy Bishop  (Yale  1796),  of  New  Haven,  by  his  second  wife, 
Esther  Huggins,  was  born  on  November  14,  1810. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  a  student  in  the 
Yale  Law  School,  until  new  convictions  of  duty  led  him  to 
abandon  the  law  and  begin  preparation  for  the  ministry. 

He  was  then  for  three  years  a  member  of  the  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary,  and  on  May  26,  1835,  he  was  licensed 
to  preach  by  the  Fairfield  West  Association. 

After  declining  several  other  invitations  for  settlement,  he 
was  ordained  and  installed  on  November  10,  1840,  by  the 
Classis  of  Long  Island,  as  the  first  pastor  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  in  Astoria. 

He  married  Susan  Holmes,  of  New  York  City,  who  died 
on  August  29,  1847,  ^t  the  age  of  31. 

He  was  much  depressed  by  the  loss  of  his  wife,  and  in 
a  few  years  consumption  set  in,  so  that  he  was  reluctantly 
obliged  to  give  up  his  charge  in  1853. 

He  spent  the  ensuing  winter  at  his  father's  house,  and 
died  here  on  February  3,  1854,  in  his  44th  year. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    183O  207 

His  children  were  a  son,  who  was  graduated  here  in  1866, 
and  a  daughter,  who  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  H.  Dana 
(Yale  1869). 

John  Burke  Bispham,  the  elder  son  of  Stacy  Budd  and 
Ann  W.  (Newbold)  Bispham,  of  Philadelphia,  was  born  on 
October  3,  1812.  His  father  died  in  1815,  and  his  mother 
next  married  William  Collins,  of  Philadelphia.  He  entered 
Yale  in  1827. 

He  studied  law  in  Philadelphia  in  the  office  of  John  W. 
Scott,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1833,  on  the  day  that 
he  was  21 ;  and  on  the  same  day  was  married  to  Martha 
Lawrie,  eldest  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Margaret  (Morris) 
Collins,  of  Philadelphia. 

He  practiced  his  profession  in  Philadelphia  until  1837, 
when  he  removed  to  Detroit,  returning  thence  to  New  York 
in  1840. 

In  1848  he  sailed  for  San  Francisco,  where  he  resumed 
practice.  He  died  there,  from  rheumatism  of  the  heart,  on 
February  24,  1852,  in  his  40th  year. 

One  daughter  and  two  sons  survived  him,  another  son 
having  died  in  childhood.  Mrs.  Bispham  died  in  New  York 
on  May  6,  1887,  in  her  74th  year. 

Thomas  Legare  Burden,  son  of  Kinsey  and  Mary 
(Legare)  Burden,  of  Charleston.  South  Carolina,  was  born 
on  August  II,  1812,  and  entered  Yale  late  in  Sophomore 
year. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Charleston  bar  in 
1838.  He  then  began  practice  in  Charleston,  but  his  retiring 
disposition  and  excessive  scrupulosity  made  his  work  so 
distasteful  to  him  that  he  soon  abandoned  his  profession. 

He  then  studied  medicine,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
from  the  Medical  College  of  South  Carolina  in  1840.  He 
practiced  medicine  in  Charleston,  until  his  marriage  there, 
probably  in  1849,  to  Martha  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Chris- 


2o8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

topher  and  Susan  Fludd  (Cantey)  Schulz;  their  marriage 
had  been  long  delayed  by  her  care  of  an  invalid  mother. 

Soon  after  this  he  removed  to  St.  Andrew's  Parish,  across 
the  Ashley  River  from  Charleston,  where  he  continued  in 
practice  and  also  indulged  his  bent  for  natural  science  and 
geolog}^ 

His  wife  died  on  November  17,  1852,  and  he  returned  to 
Charleston,  completely  broken  in  spirits  and  in  health.  His 
own  death  followed  in  consequence,  in  that  city,  on  May 
14,  1854,  in  his  42d  year.  Of  their  two  sons,  the  younger 
died  in  infancy  and  the  elder  survived  and  left  a  son 
who  is  now  living. 

Edward  Church  entered  College  from  New  York  City 
in  1827. 

After  graduation  he  remained  in  New  Haven  for  a  short 
time,  for  further  study. 

He  died  on  October  17,  1832,  at  his  father's  house  on 
Staten  Island,  at  the  age  of  25. 

His  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 

George  Rush  Clarke  entered  Yale  from  Georgetown, 
District  of  Columbia,  in  1827,  at  the  age  of  17. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania   in 

1833- 

He  is  said  to  have  settled  in  practice  in  Georgetown,  but 
to  have  become  insane,  and  to  have  died  in  an  asylum. 

Richard  Griswold  Drake,  the  elder  son  of  Deacon  Job 
and  Jemima  (Gillett)  Drake,  of  Windsor,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  September  13,  1803. 

He  studied  law  for  a  year  in  the  ofiice  of  the  Hon.  Isaac 
C.  Bates  (Yale  1802),  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  then 
a  Representative  in  Congress,  and  for  a  second  year  in  the 
Yale  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  September, 
1832. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  183O  209 

He  practiced  in  Windsor  until  1838,  when  he  removed  to 
Hartford  and  entered  into  partnership  with  the  Hon. 
Charles  Chapman. 

He  was  successful  in  his  profession,  but  on  account  of 
pulmonary  trouble,  induced  and  aggravated  by  overwork,  he 
went  to  Philadelphia  late  in  1857  for  his  health,  and  died 
there  on  February  20,  1858,  in  his  55th  year.  He  was 
buried  in  Windsor.     He  was  never  married. 

Oliver  Ellsworth,  the  eldest  child  of  Major  Martin 
Ellsworth  (Yale  1801),  of  Windsor,  Connecticut,  and  grand- 
son of  Chief  Justice  Oliver  Ellsworth,  was  born  on  April 
17,  1810. 

He  did  not  enter  a  profession,  but  remained  at  home, 
engaged  partly  in  farming. 

He  was  killed  by  the  kick  of  a  horse,  on  August  22,  1841, 
in  his  32d  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

William  Henry  Melvin  Fanshaw,  son  of  Daniel  Fan- 
shaw,  of  New  York  City,  the  printer  of  the  American  Bible 
Society,  was  born  in  1810  or  181 1. 

He  entered  at  graduation  the  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary, but  was  obliged  to  return  home,  ill  with  consumption, 
during  the  second  year  of  his  course.  He  died  at  his 
father's  house,  after  a  protracted  illness,  on  May  29,  1833, 
in  his  23d  year. 

He  was  married  on  his  sick  bed. 

Pantoleon  G.  Galatti  was  born  on  the  island  of  Scio, 
in  the  Grecian  archipelago,  in  1809.  The  massacre  of  1822 
drove  his  family  from  their  home  to  Malta,  where  by  the 
advice  of  an  American  missionary  he  and  his  brother  (Yale 
1829)  were  sent  to  this  country  for  an  education. 

He  was  prepared  for  College  in  New  Haven,  and  on 
graduation  returned  to  Malta,  where  he  remained  for  four 
years.  He  then  returned  to  Syra,  the  capital  of  the  island 
of  that  name,  in  the  group  of  Cyclades,  near  Athens,  where 

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2IO  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

he  engaged  in  mercantile  business.  In  1849  he  removed  to 
Constantinople,  where  he  continued  in  his  business  until 
1852,  when  he  went  to  Marseilles  for  four  years.  He  then 
returned  to  Constantinople,  and  was  successfully  occupied 
there  until  1877,  when  on  account  of  the  disturbed  state  of 
commerce  in  consequence  of  the  Russo-Turkish  war,  he 
retired  from  business  and  settled  in  Athens,  where  he  died 
on  December  12,  1896,  in  his  88th  year. 

He  married  in  1839,  and  had  four  daughters. 

David  Greig,  a  native  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  resident  in 
Canandaigua,  New  York,  entered  College  during  Freshman 
year. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
on  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  September,  1832,  he  settled 
in  Canandaigua,  in  partnership  with  his  uncle,  John  Greig, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  that  place. 

About  1834,  he  removed  to  New  York  City  and  opened 
an  office  on  his  own  account,  and  secured  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive practice.  Close  application  and  hard  work  in  his 
profession  developed  consumption,  and  he  died  there  in 
September,  1847,  ^t  the  age  of  36.     He  was  never  married. 

Frederick  Augustus  Hanford  was  born  in  that  part  of 
Norwalk,  Connecticut,  which  is  now  Westport,  in  December, 
1808,  and  entered  College  as  a  resident  of  New  York  City. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hugh  Maxwell  (Columbia 
Coll.  1808)  in  New  York  City,  and  after  his  admission  to 
the  bar  was  in  partnership  with  that  distinguished  prac- 
titioner and  in  charge  of  the  attorney  business  of  the  firm 
until  Mr.  Maxwell's  temporary  retirement  from  practice. 

His  retiring  disposition  led  him  to  devote  himself  mainly 
to  office  business,  but  his  industry  and  talents  secured  him  a 
high  standing. 

In  August,  1846,  he  went  to  Silver  Creek,  in  Chautauqua 
County,  to  visit  his  father  and  friends,  and  while  there  died 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    183O  211 

of  a  fever,  on  September  24,  in  his  38th  year.     He  was  never 
married. 

Thomas  Archer  Hays,  son  of  Thomas  A.  and  EHzabeth 
Hays,  of  Churchville,  Hartford  County,  Maryland,  was  born 
on  May  i,  181 1,  and  entered  the  Class  in  the  spring  of  1827 
with  his  cousin,  James  Archer. 

He  studied  law  in  Belair,  the  county  seat  of  his  native 
county,  and  practiced  his  profession  there  for  about  five 
years,  after  which  he  retired  to  a  farm  in  Churchville,  where 
he  died  on  July  26,  1868,  in  his  58th  year. 

He  married  Sarah  A.  Fulford  in  1847,  who  died  on  April 
6,  1870.     Six  sons  and  a  daughter  survived  him. 

David  Jackson  Hillard  entered  College  in  1827  from 
Randolph,  Morris  County,  New  Jersey. 

He  became  a  practicing  lawyer  in  his  native  county,  and 
died  there  in  the  spring  of  1846,  aged  38  years. 

Alfred  Hough,  son  of  Levi  and  Lois  (Merriam)  Hough, 
was  born  in  Turin,  Lewis  County,  New  York,  on  February 
23,  1803,  and  entered  Yale  during  Sophomore  year,  after 
one  year  in  Amherst  College,  as  a  resident  of  Martinsburg, 
in  the  same  county. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary 
for  a  year  after  graduation,  and  then  spent  two  years  in 
the  Yale  Divinity  School. 

On  May  20,  1835,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Vernon  Center,  Oneida 
County,  New  York.  He  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Nevv-  School  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Philadelphia,  in  May,  1839,  and  died  there,  of  bilious 
colic,  after  four  days'  illness,  on  the  28th  of  that  month,  in 
his  37th  year.  His  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Peggy  (Plant)  Frisbie,  of  Branford,  Connecticut,  died  in 
New  Haven,  on  March  23,  1901,  aged  98  years.  He  left 
two  daughters. 


212  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Edward  Barker  Jones,  son  of  William  H.  Jones  (Yale 
1796),  of  New  Haven,  was  born  in  1810,  and  was  named 
for  his  maternal  grandfather. 

In  1832  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1834. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  Claiborne,  Alabama,  where  he 
died,  unmarried,  on  February  i,  1848,  in  his  38th  year. 

Lorenzo  Neely,  son  of  John  Neely,  was  born  in  King- 
ston, New  York,  in  1809  o^  1810;  and  entered  College  after 
the  opening  of  the  Freshman  year,  his  residence  then  being 
in  Newburgh. 

He  settled  in  New  York  City,  where  he  at  first  practiced 
law,  and  afterwards  kept  a  small  book  and  stationery  store 
in  Bleecker  Street. 

His  death  probably  occurred  about  1857. 

His  wife,  Mrs.  Maria  Neely,  survived  him  for  many  years. 

Abraham  Pratt  Nott,  son  of  Deacon  Clark  and  Wealthy 
(Pratt)  Nott,  of  Centerbrook  Parish  in  that  part  of  Say- 
brook,  Connecticut,  which  is  now  Essex,  and  great-grandson 
of  the  Rev.  Abraham  Nott  (Yale  1720),  was  born  on 
August  28,  18 10. 

He  attended  lectures  in  the  Yale  Medical  School  during 
the  winter  of  1831-32,  and  was  then  prostrated  with  pulmon- 
ary disease.  In  May,  1833,  he  went  to  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  for  the  recovery  of  his  health.  During  the  follow- 
ing winter  he  attended  lectures  there  in  the  Medical  College 
of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  and  then  began  practice  in 
that  vicinity.  But  his  health  steadily  declined  until  his  death 
in  1835,  at  the  age  of  25.     He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  Hays  Patton  entered  College  from  Huntsville, 
Alabama. 

He  became  a  successful  and  wealthy  planter  in  his  native 
place,  and  was  also  largely  interested  in  the  establishment 


VALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    183O  213 

of  manufactures  in  the  South.     During  the  Civil  War  he 
favored  the  Union  cause. 

He  died  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  59. 

His  wife  died  several  years  before  him. 

Alfred  Elijah  Perkins,  son  of  Major  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Watkinson)  Perkins,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  April  5,  1809.  A  sister  married  the  Hon.  John  A. 
Rockwell  (Yale  1822). 

He  attended  three  courses  of  medical  lectures,  the  first 
in  Boston,  and  the  others  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
At  the  close  of  the  last  course,  as  a  result  of  his  strenuous 
application  in  preparation  for  his  examinations,  he  was 
quite  suddenly  and  severely  attacked  with  pulmonary  con- 
sumption. He  was  able  to  secure  in  March,  1833,  the 
degree  of  M.D.,  and  spent  the  next  six  months  in  the  South. 
In  September  he  started  for  Madeira,  going  thence  to  the 
West  Indies,  and  returning  home  in  the  summer  of  1834  by 
way  of  New  Orleans  and  the  Mississippi.  He  died  in  Nor- 
wich on  October  29,  in  his  26th  year.  He  was  never 
married. 

By  his  will  he  left  $10,000  to  the  Yale  Library  for  the 
purchase  of  books ;  so  large  a  sum  had  not  before  been 
given  at  one  time  by  any  individual  to  the  College. 

Josephus  Wayne  Saunders,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah 
(Rodgers)  Sanders,  of  Mendham,  New  Jersey,  was  born 
in  1805,  and  entered  the  Class  with  a  younger  brother  in 
1827.  His  brother  soon  left  the  Class  of  1830.  and  was 
graduated  in  1831.  While  in  College  their  surname  was 
spelt  Sanders. 

He  studied  law,— for  one  year  (1830-31)  at  the  Yale 
Law  School, — and  settled  in  practice  in  Newark.  He  had 
also  a  taste  for  mechanics,  and  for  mechanical  invention. 

He  died  in  1837,  at  the  age  of  t,2.  He  left  a  widow  and 
two  children. 


2  14  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Charles  Elliott  Scoville,  the  younger  and  only  sur- 
viving son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Eliot)  Scoville,  of  Albany, 
was  born  on  August  3,  1810,  and  entered  Yale  in  1827. 
His  father  died  in  1816,  and  his  College  residence  was  in 
New  Haven. 

He  studied  for  two  years  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1832. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  New  York  City,  in  connection 
with  Erastus  C.  and  Charles  L.  Benedict;  but  on  account 
of  the  failure  of  his  health,  both  physical  and  mental,  he 
left  New  York  in  1856,  and  resided  for  the  rest  of  his  life 
in  New  Haven  and  Guilford.  He  died  in  Guilford,  of  con- 
sumption, on  February  4,  1859,  in  his  49th  year.  He  was 
never  married.  Frederic  H.  Betts  (Yale  1864)  and  C. 
Wyllys  Betts  (Yale  1867)  were  his  nephews. 

Anthony  Dumond  Stanley,  the  elder  son  of  Martin 
and  Catharine  (Van  Garsbeck)  Stanley,  of  East  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  April  2,  18 10.  A  brother  was 
graduated  here  in  1836. 

He  was  an  instructor  in  the  Hartford  Grammar  School 
(in  which  he  had  been  prepared  for  College),  until  he 
took  a  Yale  tutorship  in  1832.  Four  years  later  he  was 
advanced  to  the  Professorship  of  Mathematics,  and  then 
spent  two  years  in  study  and  travel  in  Europe. 

In  the  fall  of  1849  he  took  a  severe  cold  while  engaged 
in  the  care  of  the  fruit  trees  on  his  paternal  homestead, 
which  left  him  with  a  bronchial  weakness  from  which  he 
never  recovered. 

In  the  ensuing  winter  and  spring  he  visited  Southern 
Europe,  Egypt,  and  Palestine,  and  was  able  to  resume  his 
duties  for  the  fall  term  of  1850,  and  again  for  a  few  weeks 
in  the  fall  of  185 1.  He  died  in  East  Hartford  on  March 
16,  1853,  at  the  age  of  43.     He  was  never  married. 

Professor  Stanley  was  an  excellent  teacher  and  a  most 
accurate  and  patient  scholar.  His  original  work  was  all  of 
the  most  reliable  and  discriminating  order. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    183O  215 

Albert  Thompson  entered  College  from  Alexandria, 
Virginia,  in  1827.     He  was  born  in  1810. 

His  name  is  marked  as  deceased  in  the  Catalogue  of 
Graduates  issued  in  the  summer  of  1832. 

Henry  Turner  entered  College  from  Natchez,  Missis- 
sippi, in  1827. 

He  became  a  planter  on  the  Mississippi  River,  and 
amassed  a  large  fortune. 

He  was  married,  but  had  no  children. 

He  is  said  to  have  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1857,  at  the 
age  of  46. 

Thomas  Norton  Welles,  the  eldest  child  of  Judge  Mar- 
tin Welles  (Yale  1806),  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  November  14,  1810,  and  entered  Yale  in  1827. 

He  studied  law  with  his  father,  and  after  his  admission 
to  the  bar  removed  to  Wethersfield,  in  Henry  County, 
northwestern  Illinois,  where  he  was  engaged  chiefly  in  agri- 
culture and  in  the  development  of  a  new  region. 

He  died  there  on  September  11,  1855,  in  his  45th  year. 

He  married  Miss  Robbins,  of  Kentucky. 

Henry  Whitney,  third  son  of  Stephen  and  Harriet 
(Suydam)  Whitney,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  on 
August  23,  1812, 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  September,  1832, 
but  never  engaged  in  practice,  or  in  any  business,  being 
the  prospective  heir  of  a  large  fortune,  which  he  did  not, 
however,  live  to  enjoy. 

He  married,  on  January  27,  1835,  Hannah  Eugenia, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Cornelia  (Beach)  Lawrence,  of 
New  York  City,  and  settled  on  an  ample  estate  in  the  out- 
skirts of  New  Haven,  where  he  indulged  his  taste  for  agri- 
culture and  the  breeding  of  fine  stock. 


2X6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Mrs.  Whitney  died  of  consumption  on  March  i6,  1844,  in 
her  30th  year,  and  he  next  married,  on  July  25,  1850,  in 
Norwich,  Maria  Lucy  Fitch,  of  New  Haven. 

He  died  suddenly  in  New  Haven,  on  March  20,  1856,  in 
his  44th  year. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters, 
of  whom  the  elder  son  and  the  youngest  daughter  died  in 
infancy.  By  his  second  wife  he  had  two  daughters. 
Stephen  Whitney,  Ph.B.  (Yale  1908),  is  a  grandson. 

His  widow  married,  on  November  20,  1862,  Nathan  A. 
Baldwin,  of  Milford,  and  died  suddenly  in  New  York  City 
on  May  15,  1886. 

CLASS  OF    183 1 

James  Uriah  Adams,  of  Columbia,  South  Carolina, 
entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  settled  on  a  plantation  belonging  to 
his  family,  some  fifteen  miles  southeast  from  Columbia, 
near  Gadsden,  where  he  spent  his  life.  He  married  late 
in  1832,  and  had  a  large  family. 

In  a  letter  written  in  August,  1850,  he  states  that  nine 
of  his  ten  children  are  still  living. 

For  many  years  he  avoided  public  life,  occupying  himself 
exclusively  with  the  raising  of  crops,  and  using  his  abund- 
ant leisure  in  hunting,  reading,  and  social  pleasures.  Later, 
he  became  active  in  politics. 

The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known. 

Otis  Baker,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Bush)  Baker, 
of  Templeton,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
on  September  27,  1803.  His  father  died  in  June,  1825,  and 
he  entered  Yale  in  1828.  A  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1829. 

He  went  South  to  teach,  and  is  said  to  have  died  in  Vir- 
ginia in  March,  1833,  in  his  30th  year. 


VALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 83 1  217 

David  Nelson  Bliss,  the  fourth  son  of  Benjamin  Bliss, 
a  farmer  of  Hebron,  Connecticut,  and  Lydia  (Strong) 
Bliss,  was  born  in  Hebron  on  June  25,  1809. 

He  went  South  as  a  teacher  of  music,  and  died  near  New 
Orleans,  or  in  Mississippi,  in  1841. 

He  left  a  widow  and  one  son. 

James  McHenry  Bo\td  entered  College  as  a  Sophomore 
from  Baltimore,  Maryland.  He  was  born  there  on  Decem- 
ber 15,  1811,  the  eldest  son  of  James  Pillar  Boyd,  an  attor- 
ney of  Baltimore,  and  of  his  wife  Anna,  second  daughter 
of  the  Hon.  James  and  Margaret  (Caldwell)  McHenry. 

He  was  a  lawyer  in  Baltimore,  and  about  1844  was  Sec- 
retary of  the  United  States  Legation  in  London.  He  was 
a  brilliant  classical  scholar,  but  somewhat  eccentric,  and 
there  was  said  to  be  a  vein  of  insanity  in  the  family. 

On  Saturday,  December  4,  1847,  he  was  married  to 
Annie  Eliza,  daughter  of  Major  Hall,  of  Harford  County, 
and  granddaughter  of  Colonel  Nathaniel  Ramsay  (Princeton 
Coll.  1767),  of  Baltimore.  The  same  day  he  went  to  Phila- 
delphia, expecting  to  take  passage  with  his  bride  on  Wed- 
nesday, the  8th,  for  a  tour  in  Europe.  On  the  evening  of 
his  arrival  he  was  mortally  wounded  by  the  accidental  dis- 
charge (as  was  supposed)  of  a  pistol  in  his  own  hands, 
and  his  death  followed  on  the  8th,  at  the  age  of  36.  He 
was  buried  in  Baltimore. 

His  widow  next  married  General  John  G.  Barnard, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  died  in  1882,  and  whom  she  long  survived. 

George  Champion,  the  second  son  of  ^lajor  Henry 
Champion,  of  Westchester  Parish,  in  Colchester,  Connect- 
icut, and  of  Ruth  Kimberly,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Robert 
Robbins  (Yale  1760),  was  born  on  June  3,  1810.  A  sister 
married  Jonathan  Edwards  (Yale  1819). 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  Andover 
Theological    Seminary,    attending    in    the    meantime     (in 


2l8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

1833)  a  course  of  lectures  in  the  medical  school  connected 
with  Dartmouth  College. 

Having  offered  himself  to  the  American  Board  as  a  mis- 
sionary, he  was  married  in  Webster,  Massachusetts,  on 
November  14,  1834,  to  Susanna,  younger  daughter  of  John 
and  Susanna  (Moore)  Larned,  and  was  ordained  at  Win- 
chester five  days  later.  He  sailed  in  December,  in  the  first 
company  of  missionaries  sent  from  America  to  South 
Africa,  and  labored  among  the  Zulus  near  Port  Natal  for 
nearly  four  years,  contributing  largely  from  his  ample 
private  fortune  to  the  support  of  the  mission. 

In  1838  the  mission  was  broken  up  by  war  between  the 
Boers  and  the  Zulus,  and  as  Mrs.  Champion's  health  was 
much  impaired,  he  was  induced  to  return  to  America,  arriv- 
ing in  February,  1839. 

As  his  wife's  condition  still  prevented  his  return  to 
Africa,  he  was  installed  on  October  3,  1839,  over  the  small 
Second  Congregational  Church  in  Dover,  Norfolk  County, 
Massachusetts,  which  he  had  assisted  in  organizing.  In 
the  early  summer  of  1841  he  was  seized  with  hemorrhages 
from  the  lungs,  which  obliged  him  to  resign  his  parish. 
He  sought  the  climate  of  the  West  Indies,  but  died  in  the 
island  of  Santa  Cruz,  on  December  17,  in  his  32d  year. 

His  widow  died  in  Boston  on  July  8,  1846,  in  her  39th 
year.  Their  children  were  three  sons  and  a  daughter;  the 
only  one  surviving  infancy  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  i860. 

Orlando  Chester,  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  entered  Yale 
at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  spent  his  life  in  teaching.  He  was  thus  occupied  in 
Norwich,  Connecticut;  was  the  Principal  of  a  select  school 
in  Oxford,  Massachusetts,  from  the  summer  of  1834  to  the 
spring  of  1836,  and  went  thence  to  Haverhill,  Massachusetts. 

While  teaching  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  he  died  there,  of 
fever,  after  two  weeks'  illness,  on  September  2,  1840,  at 
the  age  of  34. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    183I  219 

He  married,  on  May  3,  1832,  in  Edgartown,  Massachu- 
setts, Susan  (Osborn),  widow  of  James  W.  Black,  of 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  who  died  in  1827. 

She  survived  him. 

John  Milton  Clapp,  the  eleventh  in  a  family  of  thirteen 
children  of  Judge  Orris  and  Phebe  (Blish)  Clapp,  of 
Mentor,  Lake  County,  Ohio,  was  born  on  January  16, 
1810,  and  entered  Yale  in  1828. 

He  taught  in  the  academy  in  Waterbury,  Connecticut, 
for  about  a  year,  and  then  fulfilled  a  similar  engagement 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  Through  his  intimate  friend- 
ship with  Albert  More  Smith  Rhett,  a  former  classmate, 
he  then  secured  a  position  as  Principal  of  Beaufort  Col- 
lege, in  Beaufort,  South  Carolina. 

From  Beaufort  he  went,  about  1836,  to  an  editorial  posi- 
tion on  the  Charleston  Mercury,  which  he  held  with  high 
credit  for  nearly  all  the  rest  of  his  life.  During  one 
brief  interruption  of  his  work,  he  was  the  editor  of  the 
Southern  Quarterly  Review  in  Charleston. 

Failing  health  laid  him  aside  for  some  time  before  his 
death,  in  Charleston,  after  a  brief  final  illness,  on  December 
16,  1857,  at  the  age  of  48.     He  was  never  married. 

Samuel  White  Clark  was  born  in  1810  in  Newington 
Parish,  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  and  entered  Amherst 
College  in  1826,  remaining  three  years.  In  1830  he  entered 
Yale.  A  brother,  Elijah  Wells  Clark,  was  for  a  short  time 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1836,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  Yale  Medical  School  in  1839. 

He  spent  three  years  in  the  Theological  Institution  in 
Newton,  Massachusetts,  and  was  ordained  as  a  Baptist 
minister. 

He  is  said  to  have  preached  in  Northern  Ohio.  He  was 
also  at  one  time  a  teacher  in  Franklin,  Portage  County. 
He  also  taught  in  Wyoming,  New  York. 


2  20  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  1872  he  was  living  in  Topeka,  Kansas. 
He  was  married. 

Samuel  South mayd  DeForest,  the  second  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Alma  (Southmayd)  DeForest,  of  Water- 
town,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  January  13,  1811.  His 
elder  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1826. 

He  spent  his  life  in  Watertown,  engaged  in  manufactur- 
ing, and  died  there,  of  consumption,  in  January,  1838,  aged 
27  years. 

He  married,  on  May  18,  1835,  Huldah  Hitchcock,  of 
Waterbury, 

He  left  no  children. 

Thomas  Lawrence  Evans  entered  College  from  Natchez 
in  1828.     His  degree  was  not  conferred  until  1832. 

His  life  was  spent  on  a  plantation  near  Rodney,  about  25 
miles  north  of  Natchez,  where  he  died  in  1844. 

He  married  in  New  Haven  on  June  i,  1832,  Ann  Cecilia 
De  Neuville,  daughter  of  Ralph  Inman  and  Mary  (Inger- 
soll)  Linzee,  of  Boston. 

Lewis  Foster,  the  youngest  son  of  Phineas  and  Hannah 
(Kilborn)  Foster,  of  Barkhamsted,  Connecticut,  was  born 
in  Barkhamsted  on  February  5,  1807,  and  entered  College, 
after  having  taught  school,  from  the  adjoining  town  of 
(East)  Hartland.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1828. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  the  fall  of  1832, 
and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Asso- 
ciation on  April  15,  1834. 

On  December  3,  1834,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  that  part  of  Killing- 
worth  which  is  now  Clinton. 

On  September  8,  1835,  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth  E., 
daughter  of  Justus  and  Harriet  (Hotchkiss)  Harrison,  of 
New  Haven. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 83 1  22  1 

Ilis  ministry  was  preeminently  successful, — 81  persons 
being  admitted  to  the  church  in  four  years. 

He  died  in  Clinton  on  October  27,  1839,  "^  his  33d  year. 
His  only  child,  a  daughter,  died  in  youth. 

His  widow  married,  in  May,  1842,  the  Rev.  Charles  P. 
Grosvenor  (Yale  1827),  then  of  North  Scituate,  Rhode 
Island,  and  died  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  on  November  4, 
1889. 

James  Henry  Fowles  was  born  in  the  West  Indies  in 
November,  1812,  the  son  of  an  English  military  officer  who 
died  soon  after.  His  mother  then  returned  to  her  native 
place.  Saint  Mary's,  Georgia,  whence  he  entered  Yale  in 
1828. 

He  became  a  Christian  early  in  1831,  and  on  graduation 
entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he  remained  for 
two  years.  His  preferences,  however,  were  for  the  Episco- 
pal Church,  and  after  a  further  period  of  study  he  was 
admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Bowen,  of  South 
Carolina,  on  February  15,  1835. 

His  first  charge  was  as  rector  of  Christ  Church  in  Will- 
town,  Colleton  County,  South  Carolina,  where  he  remained 
until  November,  1840,  when  he  became  rector  of  St.  Bar- 
tholomew's parish,  in  the  same  county,  with  his  residence  in 
Walterboro. 

About  five  years  later  he  became  rector  of  the  Church 
of  the  Epiphany  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  filled  this  important 
post  satisfactorily  until  he  was  attacked  with  hemorrhage 
of  the  lungs  in  the  early  autumn  of  1853.  He  sought  relief 
by  removal  to  a  Southern  climate,  but  his  death  followed, 
near  Wateree,  Richland  County,  South  Carolina,  on  March 
5,  1854,  in  his  42d  year.     He  was  buried  in  Philadelphia. 

His  wife  and  three  children  survived  him. 

David  Short  Goodloe,  son  of  David  Short  and  Mary 
Louisa    (Hill)    Goodloe,   was   born   in    Granville   County, 


222  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

North  Carolina,  on  March  25,  1810.  The  family  remo^^ed 
to  Tuscumbia,  in  northwestern  Alabama,  in  his  boyhood,  and 
he  had  been  a  student  in  Augusta  College,  at  Augusta,  Ken- 
tucky, before  entering  Yale  in  1830. 

Returning  to  Tuscumbia  after  graduation,  he  was  mar- 
ried there,  on  March  22,  1832,  to  Anne  Ireland,  daughter 
of  Major  William  and  Catharine  S.  Winter,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Harry  Washington,  a  cousin  of  General  Washington. 

In  1836  he  purchased  a  plantation  (Oak  Grove)  near 
Madison  City,  in  Madison  County,  Mississippi,  to  which  he 
removed  in  1840,  and  where  he  continued  to  live  until  his 
death. 

He  was  elected  as  a  Whig  to  the  State  Legislature  in 
1845,  but  subsequently  withdrew  from  politics,  and  having 
always  been  an  ardent  Methodist  was  ordained  as  a  local 
minister  and  devoted  himself  to  religious  work. 

Being  in  failing  health,  he  went  in  July,  1859,  to  New 
Orleans,  and  thence  by  sea  to  Fortress  Monroe,  Virginia, 
where  he  died,  of  bilious  fever,  on  August  15,  in  his  50th 
year. 

His  children  were  three  daughters  (of  whom  one  died 
in  infancy)  and  four  sons.  Two  sons  were  graduates  of 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  and  one  of  the  University 
of  Mississippi.     One  son  became  an  Episcopal  clergyman. 

Junius  Hall,  the  second  son  of  the  Hon.  John  Hall 
(Yale  1802),  of  Ellington,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  Elling- 
ton on  June  8,  1811. 

He  studied  law  with  his  first  cousin,  John  Hall  Brockway 
(Yale  1820),  in  Ellington,  and  subsequently  attended  for 
one  year  (1835-36)  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  the  spring  of  1836. 

He  began  practice  in  1836  in  Alton,  Illinois,  where  he 
remained  until  1843.  For  the  last  five  years  of  this  time 
he  was  in  partnership  with  his  classmate,  Newton  D.  Strong. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 83 1  223 

From  Alton  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  a  few  miles  distant ; 
but  in  1846,  finding  that  the  climate  was  unfavorable  to 
him,  he  returned  to  New  England,  and  soon  settled  in 
practice  in  Boston,  where  he  rose  to  a  commanding  position 
at  the  bar,  excelling  particularly  as  an  advocate. 

On  November  i,  1849,  ^^  married  Emily  E.  M.,  daughter 
of  Aaron  Baldwin,  of  Boston. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives  for  1851,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  their 
proceedings.  His  health,  however,  was  seriously  impaired 
by  his  legislative  duties,  and  he  died  in  Boston  on  August 
14  of  that  year,  in  his  41st  year. 

His  widow  died  in  May,  i860.     They  had  no  children. 

William  Beale  Lewis,  son  of  Zechariah  Lewis  (Yale 
1794),  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  July  29,  181 2,  and 
entered  College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1831,  and  finished 
the  course  (being  absent  one  year)  in  1835.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Association  on 
April  15,  1834. 

In  October,  1834,  he  consented  to  preach  as  a  candidate 
for  settlement  to  the  congregation  which  was  organized  in 
December  as  the  High  Street  Congregational  Church  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  A  severe  illness  delayed  his 
ordination  and  installation  until  April  16,  1835;  and  he 
left  that  charge  on  July  11,  1837,  to  assume  in  August  the 
pastorate  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  where  he  continued  until  compelled  to  resign 
by  illness  in  October,  1848. 

He  died  in  Brooklyn  on  December  27,  1849,  i"  '""is  38th 
year. 

He  married,  on  December  18,  1834,  Charlotte  Lansing, 
eldest  daughter  of  Arthur  and  Frances  (Antill)  Tappan,  of 
New  Haven,  and  left  four  children.  Mrs.  Lewis  long  sur- 
vived her  husband. 


2  24  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

RuFus  Allen  Lockwood,  the  eldest  son  of  Deacon  Dan- 
iel Lockwood,  a  prominent  Baptist  of  Stamford,  Connecti- 
cut, and  of  Sally  (Jessup)  Lockwood,  was  born  in  Stam- 
ford on  November  15,  1804,  and  entered  Yale  in  1828. 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Newton 
(Massachusetts)  Theological  School,  and  was  ordained  as 
a  Baptist  minister  at  Newburyport  on  September  25,  1834. 

He  then  went  South,  as  his  health  was  not  firm,  and  spent 
the  winter  preaching  in  New  Orleans. 

On  his  return,  he  stopped  in  Sparta,  Tennessee,  and  con- 
sented to  preach  on  Sunday,  May  24,  1835 ;  but  was  seized 
the  same  day  with  bleeding  at  the  lungs,  and  expired  that 
evening,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  was  not  married. 

Hector  McNeill  entered  College  from  Natchez,  Mis- 
sissippi, in  February  of  the  Sophomore  year. 

On  September  30,  sixteen  days  after  graduation,  he  was 
married  to  Caroline  E.  Freere,  of  New  Haven  and  New 
Orleans. 

He  became  a  cotton  planter  in  the  vicinity  of  Natchez, 
and  later  in  Coahoma  County,  where  he  was  living  in  1844. 

Thomas  Nicholson  Morgan  came  to  College  from  New 
Orlean']. 

He  returned  to  New  Orleans,  and  had  a  very  creditable 
career  there.     He  was  a  Judge  of  the  Municipal  Court. 

He  died  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  in  the  fall  of  1844, 
aged  about  34  years. 

He  left  a  widow  and  several  children. 

Francis  Vergnies  Pike  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Mas- 
sachusetts, on  January  2,  1813,  and  was  named  for  an  able 
French  physician,  who  came  to  Newburyport  from  Guade- 
loupe in  1796.  He  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Smith  and  Sally 
(Pettingell,   Rand)    Pike. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 83 1  225 

In  1832  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
and  after  two  years  spent  there,  completed  his  course  by  a 
third  year  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  He  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  North  Essex  (Massachusetts)  Association  in 
March,  1835. 

On  February  20,  1839,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Rochester,  New 
Hampshire;  and  on  the  19th  of  the  following  month  he 
was  married  to  Catharine  R.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob  Holmes, 
of   Leicester,   Massachusetts,   who   died   on   December   27, 

1840,  at  the  age  of  24. 

He  was   dismissed   from   his   charge  on   September   20, 

1841,  but  continued  to  preach  occasionally  until  his  death, 
in  Newburyport,  on  September  4,  1843,  in  his  31st  year. 

His  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

John  McPherson  Pringle,  son  of  James  Reid  Pringle, 
of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  was  born  on  August  6,  181 1. 
His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Mary,  daughter  of  General  John 
McPherson.     He  entered  Yale  in  1829. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Charleston,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1834,  after  which  he  attended  another 
course  of  lectures  in  Philadelphia. 

In  1835  he  went  to  Paris  for  further  study.  While  there 
an  epidemic  of  influenza,  then  as  now  called  "la  grippe," 
prevailed,  and  Dr.  Pringle  was  violently  attacked.  He 
visited  England  for  a  change,  but  returned  without  having 
benefited,  and  died  in  Paris  in  July,  1837,  in  his  26th  year. 
He  was  attended  in  his  final  illness  by  the  celebrated  Dr. 
Chomel,  and  lies  buried  near  the  entrance  of  Pere-la-chaise 
Cemetery. 

WiLLL\M  Francis  Quenichet,  of  Petersburg.  Dinwid- 
dle County,  Virginia,  entered  Yale  in  1829.  from  the  Junior 
Class  in  Hampden-Sidney  College. 

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2  26  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  took  a  course  of  medical  study  in  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1835,  but 
died  later  in  the  same  year. 

Luzerne  Rae,  the  only  son  of  Joel  and  Harriet  (Fitch) 
Ray,  was  born  in  North  Haven,  Connecticut,  on  December 
22,  1811,  and  was  baptized  on  March  8,  1812,  with  the  name 
of  Joel  Luzerne  Ray. 

At  graduation  he  became  a  teacher  in  the  American 
Asylum  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in  Hartford,  where  he 
remained  for  seven  years. 

During  this  period  he  also  studied  theology,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Hartford  South  Association. 

On  leaving  the  Asylum  he  engaged  to  fill  for  one  year 
the  office  of  Chaplain  to  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane 
in  Worcester,  Massachusetts ;  but  on  the  expiration  of  this 
term  he  returned  to  the  Hartford  institution,  and  was 
employed  for  the  rest  of  his  life  in  advanced  teaching  and  in 
editorial  labor. 

From  January,  1843,  to  January,  1847,  he  edited  a  weekly 
newspaper,  the  Religious  Herald.  With  the  beginning  of 
1847  ^  valuable  quarterly,  entitled  the  American  Annals  of 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  was  begun  under  his  editorship,  and 
this  was  continued  by  him  through  six  volumes. 

He  was  a  graceful  and  forcible  writer,  as  well  as  an 
enthusiastic  teacher.  For  many  years  he  was  collecting 
materials  for  a  history  of  New  England,  but  did  not  prepare 
any  part  of  his  manuscript  for  publication. 

He  died  in  Hartford,  very  suddenly,  from  an  epileptic 
attack,  on  September  16,   1854,  in  his  43d  year. 

He  married  Martha  Corbin,  elder  daughter  of  Thomas  J. 
and  Sophia  (Moore)  Whiteside,  of  Champlain,  Clinton 
County,  New  York,  who  died  at  her  brother's  house  in 
Champlain,  on  August  7,  1852,  at  the  age  of  34. 

Their  children  were  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    183I  227 

Thomas  Seddon,  Junior,  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia, 
entered  Yale  at  the  beginning  of  the  second  term  of 
Sophomore  year.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
Seddon,  Cashier  of  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Virginia,  in 
Fredericksburg. 

At  the  end  of  Senior  year  he  was  taken  seriously  ill. 
He  was  removed  to  his  home,  but  died  on  August  14,  one 
week  after  his  arrival.  The  Corporation  voted  to  enroll 
his  name  among  the  graduates. 

He  was  proposing  to  study  for  the  ministry. 

Jonathan  Stoddard,  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Abiram  Stod- 
dard (Yale  1800),  of  that  part  of  Derby,  Connecticut, 
which  is  now  Seymour,  was  born  on  October  9,  1807. 

He  was  a  student  in  the  Yale  Law  School  from  1831  to 
1833,  and  on  his  admission  to  the  bar  began  practice  in 
New  Haven,  where  he  continued  until  his  death. 

He  was  a  prominent  Democrat  in  politics,  and  from  1845 
to  1849,  during  the  administration  of  President  Polk,  he 
was  United  States  District  Attorney  for  Connecticut.  In 
1853-54  he  was  State's  Attorney  for  New  Haven  County. 

He  died  in  New  Haven,  after  a  protracted  illness,  on 
April  T.'j,  1855,  in  his  48th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Horace  Bush  Webster  entered  Yale  as  a  Sophomore, 
from  Albany,  New  York,  and  was  the  youngest  of  the  Class 
at  graduation. 

After  a  course  of  legal  study,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Albany,  and  continued  in  practice  there  until  his  death. 
His  standing  in  his  profession  is  shown  by  his  appointment 
by  the  Common  Council  as  City  Attorney  in  April,  1843. 
He  was  also  favorably  known  as  a  ripe  scholar  and  elegant 
writer. 

His  health  had  always  been  frail,  and  he  died  in  Albany, 
after  a  severe  illness,  on  December  8,  1843,  at  the  age  of  31. 

He  was  never  married. 


2  28  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

CLASS    OF     1832 

Henry  Wilson  Archer,  the  second  son  of  Dr.  John 
and  Ann  Archer,  of  Stafford,  Harford  County,  Maryland, 
was  born  on  April  18,  181 3.  He  was  sent  to  Yale  soon 
after  his  father's  death,  but  was  here  for  only  a  few  months 
in  1829-30,  and  was  then  sent  away,  with  many  of  his  Class, 
at  the  time  of  the  "Conic  Sections  Rebellion."  He  then 
entered  Hobart  College,  in  Geneva,  New  York,  and  subse- 
quently removed  to  Union  College,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  1 83 1.     He  was  admitted  to  a  degree  here  in  1879. 

He  studied  law  with  his  brother-in-law,  the  Hon.  Albert 
Constable,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Baltimore  in 
1835.  He  was  engaged  thenceforth  in  practice,  and  in  1845 
represented  Harford  County  in  the  State  Legislature. 

He  married,  on  June  7,  1849,  Mary  E.,  eldest  daughter 
of  John  W.  and  Elizabeth  Walker,  of  Chestertown,  and 
soon  after  settled  in  Belair,  near  his  birthplace. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1867.  He  w^as  a  Whig  in  politics  until  1861,  and  after  that 
a  Democrat. 

He  died  on  July  7,  1887,  in  his  75th  year. 

He  had  eleven  children,  of  whom  five  sons  and  four 
daughters  survived  to  grow  up. 

Samuel  George  Baker,  the  second  son  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Baker,  a  Professor  in  the  University  of  Maryland,  and 
Sarah  (Dickens)  Baker,  was  born  in  Baltimore  on  October 
12,  181 3,  and  entered  Yale  in  1830.  A  brother  was  grad- 
uated here  in  1830. 

He  studied  medicine  with  his  father  in  the  University  of 
Maryland,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1835.  He 
then  entered  on  practice  in  his  native  city,  and  in  1837  was 
chosen  to  succeed  his  father  in  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica 
and  Therapeutics  in  the  University. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1832  229 

He  married  in  1839  Marianne,  dau.^-hter  of  Judge  Read, 
of  Newcastle,  Delaware. 

He  had  already  gained  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  in  Baltimore,  on  August  i,  1841,  in 
his  28th  year. 

John  Owen  Colton,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Rev.  George 
Colton  (Yale  1804),  of  Westford,  Otsego  County,  New 
York,  was  born  on  INIarch  13,  or  14,  1810.  In  1822  the 
family  removed  to  Royalton,  in  Niagara  County,  and  in 
1824  he  was  sent  to  Lockport  to  enter  a  store.  Here  he 
became  a  Christian  and  formed  the  purpose  of  studying  for 
the  ministry.  He  came  to  Yale  in  the  winter  of  Freshman 
year.  His  father  removed  the  next  year  to  Elba  in  Genesee 
County.  At  graduation  he  delivered  the  Valedictory 
Oration. 

For  the  next  two  years  he  taught,  successively  in  Mount 
Hope  College  in  Baltimore  and  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  Divinity 
School,  where  he  pursued  the  three  years'  course,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  East  Association  on 
May  30,  1838.  Meantime  he  assumed  in  the  spring  of 
1835  the  duties  of  a  College  Tutorship,  which  he  discharged 
until  the  spring  of  1838. 

During  the  following  year  he  was  enrolled  as  a  student 
in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  was  also  preparing  for  publica- 
tion a  Greek  Reader. 

On  November  6,  1839,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
the  first  pastor  of  the  Chapel  Street  Congregational  Church 
(now  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer)  in  New  Haven,  and 
was  giving  great  promise  of  usefulness,  when  seized  on 
December  24  with  bilious  fever,  which  confined  him  until 
March,  1840.  He  then  went  out  of  town  for  a  brief  visit, 
and  a  few  days  after  his  return  died  suddenly,  from  the 
discharge  of  an  abscess  of  the  liver  into  the  lungs,  on 
April  20,  1840,  in  his  31st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


230  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Henry  Alfred  DeForest,  son  of  John  H.  and  Dotha 
(Woodward)  DeForest,  of  Watertown,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  May  15,  1814.  In  his  childhood  the  family 
removed  to  Humphreysville  in  Derby,  now  Seymour.  A 
brother  was  graduated  in  1831. 

After  a  three  years'  course  in  the  Yale  Medical  School, 
he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1835,  and  then  settled  in 
practice  in  Bristol,  but  removed  a  year  later  to  Rochester, 
New  York,  where  he  married,  on  August  6,  1840,  Catharine 
Sedgwick  Sergeant,  of  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts. 

He  was  accepted  in  1841  by  the  American  Board  as  a 
medical  missionary  to  Syria,  and  sailed  in  September  for 
Paris,  where  he  pursued  further  professional  study. 

He  reached  Beirut  in  April,  1842,  and  applied  himself 
with  such  success  to  the  study  of  Arabic,  that  he  was  able 
to  conduct,  with  his  wife's  aid,  a  female  seminary  in 
Beirut,  the  influence  of  which  on  the  native  population  was 
most  remarkable. 

In  these  labors  he  lost  his  health,  and  in  1854  was  obliged 
to  return,  arriving  in  America  in  September.  After  long 
suffering,  he  died  in  Rochester  on  November  24,  1858,  in 
his  45th  year,  and  was  buried  in  New  Haven.  His  widow 
died  in  1896,  at  the  age  of  79. 

He  left  no  children. 

Amasa  Dewey,  the  second  son  of  Asahel  and  Lucina 
(Fuller)  Dewey,  of  Columbia  Society,  in  Lebanon,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  March  12,  1804,  and  was  prepared 
for  College  at  the  Academy  in  Monson,  Massachusetts. 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Yale 
Divinity  School,  and  was  licensed  to  preacli  by  the  New 
Haven  East  Association  on  August  5,  1834.  He  had 
expected  to  become  a  foreign  missionary,  but  impaired 
health  forbade. 

About  the  ist  of  July,  1836,  he  began  to  preach  in  a  vil- 
lage since  known  as  Storrsville,  in  the  southern  part  of 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 832  231 

Petersham,  Massachusetts,  where  a  small  Congregational 
Church  was  organized  in  the  following  November.  He  was 
ordained  and  installed  as  their  pastor  on  January  11,  1837, 
and  in  the  same  month  married  Hadassah,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Hadassah  (Stone)  Thompson,  of  Monson. 

He  died,  of  consumption,  in  Petersham,  on  January  5, 
1840,  in  his  36th  year.  His  wife  survived  him,  with  one 
daughter. 

A  selection  from  his  writings  was  published  in  1842. 

Frederick  Stein  man  Ernst,  the  son  of  John  Christo- 
pher and  Sybilla  Amelia  (Steinman)  Ernst,  of  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  on  February  2,  1810,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1829. 

He  taught  for  two  years  after  graduation,  and  then  spent 
three  years  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

He  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  by  the  Presbytery  of 
New  Brunswick  on  October  4,  1837,  and  for  three  or 
four  years  labored  as  a  home  missionary  in  Hinds  County, 
Mississippi.  In  1840  he  was  called  to  supply  a  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Buhler's  Plains,  near  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana, 
where  he  remained,  greatly  beloved,  until  the  close  of  his 
Hfe. 

He  left  his  home  early  in  August,  1854,  for  a  brief  visit 
to  the  North,  but  caught  the  yellow  fever  in  New  Orleans, 
and  died  in  Montgomery,  Alabama,  on  August  9,  aged 
443^  years. 

He  married,  on  April  16,  1840,  Martha  R.  Marshall,  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  who  died  on  June  9,  1842,  in  her 
26th  year,  leaving  one  son.  He  next  married,  on  July  i, 
1849,  Elizabeth  Ann,  eldest  daughter  of  Deacon  Thomas 
and  Betsey  (Lovell)  Hammond,  of  South  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, who  was  at  that  time  the  Principal  of  a  female 
seminary  in  Plaquemine,  Louisiana,  and  who  survived  him 
with  a  son,  who  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in 
1876,  and  at  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1879. 


232  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

John  Jay  Evarts,  the  eldest  son  of  Jeremiah  Evarts 
(Yale  1802),  of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
December  6,  1812.  The  family  removed  to  Boston  in  his 
infancy.  He  was  prepared  for  College  in  the  Boston  Latin 
School,  of  which  Frederick  P.  Leverett  (Harvard  182 1) 
was  then  Principal.  His  father  died  in  May  of  his  Junior 
year. 

On  graduation  he  engaged  in  teaching,  though  intending 
ultimately  to  study  law.  His  former  instructor,  Mr.  Lever- 
ett, had  set  up  a  private  school  in  Boston,  in  which  he 
became  assistant;  but  in  February,  1833,  he  was  prostrated 
by  illness,  which  caused  his  death,  at  the  house  of  his 
uncle  by  marriage,  Judge  Simeon  Baldwin,  in  New  Haven, 
on  September  i,  in  his  21st  year.     He  was  buried  here. 

He  was  a  youth  of  remarkable  promise. 

James  Edwards  Frisby,  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth 
(Brown)  Frisby,  of  Baltimore,  was  born  on  December  22, 
1813,  and  entered  Yale  in  1830. 

He  resided  in  Baltimore,  and  married,  on  March  11,  1834, 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Nancy  Merryman,  of 
"Bacon  Hall,"  near  Glencoe,  Baltimore  County.  He  died 
on  January  6,  1838,  in  his  25th  year,  and  his  widow  died  on 
the  7th  of  the  following  June,  leaving  a  daughter. 

George  Theodore  Kingsley,  the  eldest  son  of  Professor 
James  L.  Kingsley  (Yale  1799),  was  born  in  New  Haven 
on  August  25,  1812. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  as  a  private  tutor  on 
the  eastern  shore  of  Maryland.  He  then  studied  in  the 
Yale  Law  School  for  two  years,  and  on  being  admitted  to 
the  bar,  went  in  the  fall  of  1835  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where 
he  established  himself  in  practice.  His  brother  (Yale 
1834)  became  his  partner  in  1837.  In  June,  1842,  he  went 
to  Sandusky  on  professional  business,  and  went  to  the  wharf 
at  midnight  on  June  9,  to  take  a  steamboat  for  Cleveland. 
The  night  was  dark,  the  wind  high,  and  the  bay  rough ;   he 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1832  233 

fell  from  the  wharf,  became  encumbered  in  his  cloak,  which 
he  carried  on  his  arm,  and  was  drowned,  in  his  30th  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

Lucius  Horatio  Minor,  son  of  General  John  and  Lucy 
Landon  (Carter)  Minor,  of  Hazell  Hill,  near  Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia,  was  born  on  September  22,  1810.  His 
father  died  in  181 5,  and  he  had  been  a  member  of  Kenyon 
College,  Ohio,  before  joining  Yale  in  1831.  Family  reasons 
obliged  him  to  return  home  before  the  end  of  Senior  year, 
but  he  received  his  degree  in  1833. 

He  married,  in  1832,  Catharine  Frances,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Carter  Berkeley,  of  Edgewood,  Hanover  County,  and  for 
some  years  followed  the  profession  of  an  engineer;  but 
finally  left  it,  as  it  kept  him  much  from  home,  and  settled 
down  quietly  as  a  farmer  at  Edgewood. 

He  died  on  October  26,  1863,  in  his  54th  year.  Seven 
children  survived  him.  His  wife  died  a  few  years  before 
him. 

William  Power,  son  of  John  and  Anna  Power,  of  Balti- 
more, was  born  in  181 3,  and  entered  Yale  in  1830. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  began  a  course  of  medical 
study  in  Baltimore  in  the  office  of  Dr.  John  Buckler,  and 
in  due  course  proceeded  to  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maryland,  and  spent  some  time  as  a  resident 
student  in  the  Baltimore  Almshouse  Hospital. 

He  then  went  abroad  for  extended  study  in  Paris,  and 
on  his  return  obtained  the  position  of  resident  physician  in 
the  Almshouse  Hospital,  which  he  held  until  appointed 
visiting  physician,  nine  months  later. 

In  1841  and  1842  he  delivered  courses  of  lectures  on  the 
physical  exploration  of  the  chest  at  the  Baltimore  Infirmary, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  University ;  but  on  account  of 
precarious  health  he  was  then  obliged  to  suspend  such 
employment,  until  1844. 


234  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  1845  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  the  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Physic  in  the  University,  and  for  the  next  six 
years  he  maintained  an  exceptionally  brilliant  position  as 
a  teacher. 

On  October  14,  1847,  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Judge  William  Frick,  of  Baltimore. 

During  the  winter  of  1851-52  he  was  unable  to  meet  his 
public  duties,  and  in  February  he  resigned  his  professorship. 
He  died  in  Baltimore  on  August  15,  1852.  at  the  age  of  39. 

CoRYDON  Stillman  Sperry,  SOU  of  Hezekiah  and 
Luanna  (Stillman)  Sperry,  of  Bristol,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  March  11,  1810. 

He  taught  for  a  short  time  in  Woodbury,  and  was  then 
Principal  of  the  public  school  in  Waterbury,  where  he  mar- 
ried, on  June  10,  1835,  Catharine  E.,  youngest  child  of  Mark 
and  Anna  (Cook)  Leavenworth,  and  sister  of  Melines  C. 
Leavenworth,  M.D.  (Yale  Med.  School  181 7). 

Soon  after  this  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Leavenworth,  Spencer  &  Sperry,  makers  of  buttons. 
About  1836  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  acting  there  as 
selling  agent  for  his  firm,  and  subsequently  for  other  firms. 

He  continued  to  be  thus  occupied  until  October,  1852, 
when  he  returned  to  Waterbury.  Here  he  became  interested 
in  several  manufacturing  corporations,  particularly  in  the 
American  Hosiery  Company  and  the  Waterbury  Cotton  Gin 
Company,  in  the  management  of  both  of  which  he  took  an 
active  part. 

His  wife  died  on  February  9,  1855,  in  her  39th  year,  and 
his  own  health  then  rapidly  failed,  until  his  death,  in  Water- 
bury, on  February  10,  or  11,  1856,  in  his  46th  year. 

Four  daughters  and  two  sons  survived  him. 

Eleazar  Pomeroy  Talcott,  the  only  child  of  William 
and  Polly  (Pomeroy)  Talcott,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut, 
and  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Hervey  Talcott    (Yale   1810), 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 833  235 

was  born  on  December  12,  1809,  and  was  named  for  his 
maternal  grandfather. 

He  suffered  in  infancy  from  necrosis  of  the  thigh-bone, 
which  made  him  a  cripple  for  life.  At  the  time  of  gradua- 
tion he  was  in  an  advanced  stage  of  pulmonary  consump- 
tion, and  was  unable,  on  account  of  extreme  weakness,  to 
be  present  at  Commencement. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Coventry,  thirteen  weeks  later, 
on  November  14,  in  his  23d  year. 


CLASS  OF    1833 

Epaphroditus  Champion  Bacon,  the  eldest  son  of  the 
Hon.  Asa  Bacon  (Yale  1793),  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  September  2,  181 1,  and  was  named  for  his 
maternal  grandfather. 

After  studying  medicine  for  six  months  in  New  York 
City,  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  in  1835  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  then  began  practice  in  Mobile, 
Alabama,  but  was  obliged  to  abandon  his  profession  on 
account  of  weakness  of  the  lungs,  in  1838,  when  he  returned 
to  Litchfield. 

He  took  an  intelligent  interest  in  political  affairs,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  State  House  of  Representatives  in 
1840  and  1841.  He  also  devoted  himself  largely  to  heraldic, 
antiquarian,  and  historical  studies,  in  which  he  showed  great 
enthusiasm. 

For  the  benefit  of  his  health  he  left  home  in  May,  1844, 
for  a  European  trip,  and  while  in  Seville,  Spain,  died  of 
strangulated  hernia,  after  five  days'  illness,  on  January  11. 
1845,  i"  ^^Js  34th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Michael  Baldwin,  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Ann 
(Perrin)  Baldwin,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on  June  11, 
1813.  A  brother  was  graduated  in  1837,  and  two  of  his 
uncles  in  1793  and  1797  respectively. 


236  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Owego,  New 
York,  and  then  spent  two  years  in  the  Yale  Law  School. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Natchez,  Mis- 
sissippi, in  the  fall  of  1836,  and  was  fast  rising  to  distinc- 
tion, when  he  died  there,  of  pulmonary  consumption,  on 
October  19,  1839,  in  his  27th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Shubael  Fitch  Bartlett,  son  of  the  Rev.  Shubael  Bart- 
lett  (Yale  1800),  of  East  Windsor,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  August  23,  181 1,  and  entered  College  in  1830. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  home,  under  private 
tuition,  and  in  1836-37  attended  lectures  in  the  Yale  Medi- 
cal School.  He  then  taught  for  one  year  in  the  New  York 
Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  and  returning  to  Yale 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1839. 

In  the  spring  of  1840  he  entered  on  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Lyme,  where  he  remained  for  nine  years.  On  Sep- 
tember I,  1842,  he  married  Fanny  Rogers,  eldest  daughter 
of  the  late  Judge  Charles  Griswold  (Yale  1808),  of  Lyme. 

In  March,  1849,  he  joined  as  physician  and  treasurer  a 
select  company  of  California  pioneers  ;  but  his  health,  which 
had  previously  been  robust,  proved  unequal  to  the  hardships 
of  the  journey,  and  failed  so  rapidly  that  he  started  for 
home  in  the  ensuing  fall.  He  died,  of  chronic  dysentery,  on 
board  the  United  States  steamer  Invincible,  off  Benicia,  on 
the  way  from  Sacramento  to  San  Francisco,  on  October  12, 
in  his  39th  year,  and  was  buried  in  Benicia. 

One  of  his  two  daughters,  and  one  son  (a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1872  in  Yale)  survived  him.  His  widow  married 
his  younger  brother,  Daniel  Wadsworth  Bartlett,  in  1858. 

John  Campbell  Beach,  a  son  of  John  Harvey  Beach 
(Yale  1804)  and  Christina  (Campbell)  Beach,  of  Auburn, 
New  York,  was  born  on  May  19,  1813. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Joshua  A.  Spencer  (hon- 
orary M.A.  Yale  1834),  of  Utica,  and  in  that  of  Daniel 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 833  237 

Kellogg,  of  Skaneateles,  and  in  1837  succeeded  the  latter  in 
business.  In  1844  he  removed  to  Auburn,  and  entered  into 
partnership  with  the  Hon.  William  H.  Seward. 

In  1845,  on  his  mother's  death,  he  gave  up  practice,  in 
order  to  settle  the  family  estate,  which  made  it  necessary  for 
him  to  remove  to  New  York  City. 

He  married,  on  July  10,  185 1,  Elizabeth  Townsend  Por- 
ter, of  New  York  City,  daughter  of  the  late  James  Porter, 
of  Albany,  who  survived  him,  without  children. 

On  July  26,  1856,  he  took  passage  to  New  York  upon  the 
Fall  River  steamboat  Empire  State.  The  same  evening, 
when  the  boat  was  off  Point  Judith,  he  was  so  badly  scalded 
by  the  bursting  of  a  steam  pipe,  that  he  died  the  next 
morning,  after  the  vessel  had  returned  to  Fall  River,  in  his 
44th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Auburn. 

William  Adolphus  Butler,  son  of  Silas  and  Phebe 
Butler,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  on  October  23,  1814. 
During  his  College  course  the  family  residence  was  in 
Brooklyn. 

He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Smith,  of  New 
York,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1837. 

In  the  spring  of  1840  he  left  Brooklyn  for  Central  Amer- 
ica, and  settled  in  Nicaragua,  where  he  was  United  States 
Consul  until  his  death.  In  August,  1843,  ^^  ^^^^  Nicaragua 
for  a  visit  to  the  United  States,  and  after  having  been  five 
days  at  sea  he  died  instantly  from  the  bursting  of  a  blood- 
vessel in  consequence  of  violent  retching  in  an  attack  of 
sea-sickness,  on  August  23,  in  his  2Qth  year.  He  was  buried 
on  Old  Providence  Island,  in  the  Caribbean  Sea.  He  was 
never  married. 

NoAH  Barber  Clark,  son  of  Captain  Oliver  and  Azubah 
(Barber)  Clark,  of  East  Windsor,  Connecticut,  was  born 
in  March,  1806. 


238  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  the  early  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in 
teaching  in  various  places  in  Connecticut  (as  Berlin,  Hart- 
ford, and  Wethersfield).  Subsequently  he  led  a  wandering 
life,  with  no  settled  occupation. 

He  was  living  in  1875.    The  date  of  his  death  is  unknown. 

He  is  said  to  have  married  in  1836. 

John  Oliver  Colt,  the  second  in  a  family  of  fifteen 
children  of  Roswell  Lyman  and  Margaret  (Oliver)  Colt, 
of  Baltimore,  and  grandson  of  Peter  Colt  (Yale  1764),  was 
born  on  September  11,  1813. 

After  some  years  in  a  counting-house,  he  became  a  com- 
mission-merchant in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  the  old  home 
of  the  family.  He  soon  relinquished  business,  and  later 
traveled  extensively. 

In  the  last  week  of  1857  he  went  to  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  but  died  a  day  or 
two  after  his  arrival,  from  disease  of  the  kidneys,  on  Jan- 
uary 3,  1858,  in  his  45th  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

John  Crump,  son  of  Reuben  and  Eliza  (Richards) 
Crump,  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  on  September  3,  1814,  and  entered  College  in 
1830.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Guy  Richards  (Yale  1806),  and 
a  brother  was  graduated  in  1836. 

He  studied  medicine  at  home,  and  on  the  failure  of  his 
health  went  to  the  South,  but  without  benefit.  He  returned 
to  New  London  and  died  there,  of  pulmonary  consumption, 
on  July  4,  1835,  ^"  his  21st  year. 

John  Morrill  Currier,  son  of  Richard  and  Dolly 
Currier,  of  Amesbury,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  Jan- 
uary 30,  1809,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the 
Sophomore  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 833  239 

He  Studied  medicine  in  Amesbury  with  Dr.  Israel  Balch 
(Dartmouth  Coll.  1811),  and  attended  lectures  in  Boston, 
and  at  the  Castleton  Medical  College  in  Woodstock,  Ver- 
mont, where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1839. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  Liberty,  in  southwestern  Mis- 
sissippi, and  married,  in  May,  1843,  Mrs.  Frances  M.  Stuart, 
of  Woodville, 

He  died  in  Woodville,  of  yellow  fever,  on  September  20, 
1844,  in  his  36th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  a  son  who  died  early. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Davis,  third  son  of  Rev.  Jona- 
than and  Rebecca  Davis,  of  Monticello,  Fairfield  County, 
South  Carolina,  was  born  on  December  23,  1812,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1832. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  William  C.  Preston  (Coll. 
of  S.  C.  1812)  in  Columbia,  and  after  his  admission  to  the 
bar  in  1834  began  practice  in  that  city. 

After  the  outbreak  of  the  Seminole  War  (1835)  in  Flor- 
ida, he  went  into  service  as  a  volunteer.  Soon  after  the 
close  of  the  war  (1842)  he  married,  and  devoted  himself 
to  planting;  but  on  account  of  losses  and  for  other 
reasons  he  studied  medicine  and  followed  that  profession 
with  success. 

He  died  in  Mississippi,  on  Silver  Creek,  about  eighteen 
miles  from  Yazoo  City,  on  June  13,  1853,  in  his  41st  year. 

William  Mason  Durand,  the  only  son  of  William  and 
Nancy  (Buckingham)  Durand,  of  Milford,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  May  12,  18 14. 

He  spent  two  years  after  graduation  in  the  Yale  Law 
School,  and  began  practice  in  Hartford;  but  a  pulmonary 
disease  of  long  standing  compelled  him,  after  two  or  three 
years,  to  seek  relief  in  foreign  travel.  He  returned  without 
improvement,   and   sank  gradually  until  his   death   at  his 


240  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

father's  house  in  Milford,  on  October  14,  1841,  in  his  28th 
year. 

Zabdiel  Rogers  Ely,  the  second  son  of  Horace  and 
Sarah  Ely,  of  Hamburg  Society  in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  January  16,  1809,  and  was  named  for  his  maternal 
grandfather.  Zabdiel  Rogers  (Yale  1820)  was  the  son  of  a 
half-brother  of  his  mother.     He  entered  Yale  in  1830. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by 
the  Middlesex  Association  on  June  6,  1836. 

He  then  spent  about  a  year  in  Jefferson  County,  New 
York,  supplying  churches  in  Brownville  and  Chaumont, 
Exposure  and  severe  labor  impaired  his  health,  but  he  was 
able  to  accept  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Deep  River,  in  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  where  he  was 
ordained  and  installed  on  November  i,  1837. 

He  married,  on  May  28,  1838,  Mary  Stanley,  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Orville  and  Betsey  Porter  (Stanley)  Hunger  ford, 
of  Watertown,  New  York. 

Too  constant  labor  during  the  following  summer  was  fol- 
lowed by  hemorrhage  from  the  lungs,  which  obliged  his 
retirement  for  the  winter.  He  resigned  his  pastorate  on 
May  20,  1839,  and  died  on  the  15th  of  November,  at  his 
father-in-law's  house  in  Watertown,  in  his  31st  year. 

His  wife  survived  him.     Their  only  child  died  early. 

Samuel  Field  was  the  son  of  Jedidiah  Field,  of  East 
Guilford,  now  Madison,  Connecticut,  who  married  Elizabeth 
Alexander,  of  Sunbury,  Liberty  County,  Georgia,  where  he 
was  born  in  1812.  His  mother  having  died  in  his  child- 
hood, he  was  brought  up  in  Madison,  and  entered  College  in 
1830. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Georgia,  and  studied  law 
with  Judge  Saffold,  who  lived  in  or  near  Sandersville,  in 
Washington  County,  and  whose  only  daughter  he  married  in 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 833  24 1 

February,  1844.     She  died  in  less  than  a  year,  leaving  no 
children. 

He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Sanders- 
ville,  where  he  died  in  May,  1858,  at  the  age  of  46. 

John  Calvin  Goddard,  the  younger  son  of  Major  Heze- 
kiah  and  Eunice  (Rathbone)  Goddard,  of  New  London, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  February  3,  181 5.  George  Calvin 
Goddard  (Yale  1820)  was  a  first  cousin,  and  the  Rev.  John 
Calvin  Goddard  (Yale  1873)  is  a  nephew. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  University, 
and  in  1837  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  York.  In 
November  of  that  year  he  went  into  partnership  with  his 
classmate,  VanSantvoord,  in  New  York  City,  and  during 
his  brief  career  gave  abundant  promise  of  eminence.  On 
February  5,  1843,  at  the  age  of  28,  he  died  in  New  York 
of  small-pox,  supposed  to  have  been  taken  on  board  the 
United  States  ship  North  Carolina. 

Alfred  Kimball  Gould,  son  of  Ichabod  and  Mehetable 
(Kimball)  Gould,  of  Hopkinton,  New  Hampshire,  was 
born  on  August  2,  1810. 

During  the  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  New 
Canaan,  Connecticut,  and  then  entered  the  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  He  died  of  pulmonary  consumption  at 
the  home  of  a  brother-in-law,  in  Concord,  New  Hampshire, 
on  July  29,  1835,  at  the  age  of  25,  and  is  buried  in  Concord. 

Abel  Knapp  Hinsdale,  the  youngest  son  of  Deacon  Abel 
and  Mary  Hinsdale,  of  Torrington,  Connecticut,  and  a 
grandson  of  the  Rev.  Joshua  Knapp  (Yale  1770),  was  born 
on  October  6,  1807. 

He  taught  after  graduation  in  Bellport,  Long  Island,  and 
from   1835  to   1838  was  a  member  of  the  Auburn    (New 
York)  Theological  Seminary. 
16 


242  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Being  accepted  as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board, 
he  was  ordained  on  April  12,  1838,  by  the  Congregational 
Association  of  Long  Island,  at  Riverhead,  and  then  spent 
over  two  years  in  soliciting  funds  for  the  Board. 

While  thus  employed,  he  was  married,  on  October  i,  1840, 
in  Derry,  New  Hampshire,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
Clark. 

On  January  18,  1841,  he  sailed  from  Boston  for  his  field 
among  the  Nestorians  of  Kurdistan,  in  Asiatic  Turkey  and 
Persia.  After  a  sojourn  in  Mosul,  he  reached  his  station, 
about  a  hundred  miles  distant,  on  October  8,  1842,  and  had 
entered  zealously  on  his  work,  when  he  was  attacked,  on 
December  2,  with  typhoid  fever.  During  his  illness  he  was 
removed  to  Mosul,  where  he  died,  on  December  26,  in  his 
36th  year. 

His  widow  remained  until  1855  as  a  teacher  of  the  chil- 
dren of  missionaries  in  the  American  Mission  in  Constanti- 
nople, and  then  returned  to  Boston,  where  she  died  two  or 
three  years  later. 

No  children  survived  them. 

Silas  Holmes^  son  of  Dr.  Jabez  and  Ruth  (Gorham) 
Holmes,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  and  grandson  of  Dr.  Silas 
Holmes,  of  Bristol,  was  born  on  October  25,  1815. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Boston,  and  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  from  Harvard  University  in  1836. 

He  joined  the  United  States  Navy,  with  the  rank  of 
Assistant  Surgeon,  in  June,  1838,  and  in  this  capacity  was 
connected  with  the  Exploring  Expedition  which  went  round 
the  world  in  1838  to  1842.  In  November,  1843,  ^^  was 
advanced  to  the  rank  of  Passed  Assistant  Surgeon. 

He  was  drowned  by  the  accidental  upsetting  of  a  boat  in 
Mobile  Bay,  on  May  24,  1849,  in  his  34th  year. 

He  married,  on  October  6,  1837,  Maria,  daughter  of 
Ezekiel  Gunn,  of  Bristol.  Their  children  were  one  daugh- 
ter and  one  son. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 833  243 

Cheney  Howe  was  born  in  Townshend,  Windham 
County,  Vermont,  in  August,  1810. 

In  the  fall  of  1833  he  attended  lectures  in  the  Berkshire 
Medical  College  in  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  and  during 
most  of  1834  he  was  teaching  and  at  the  same  time  pur- 
suing his  medical  studies  in  northern  Alabama. 

After  a  winter  visit  to  Texas  he  next  taught  in  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  for  two  years  from  November,  1835,  he 
practiced  medicine  there  in  connection  with  an  established 
physician. 

He  then  attended  a  course  of  lectures  in  the  Medical 
College  of  Ohio,  in  Cincinnati,  and  received  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  March,  1838,  after  which  he  resumed  practice  in 
Louisville. 

In  February,  1839,  ^^  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
where  he  gradually  acquired  a  large  and  lucrative  practice. 
His  health  began  to  fail  in  October,  1846,  and  he  came 
home  in  March,  1847,  and  died  of  pulmonary  consumption, 
in  his  native  town,  on  September  7,  1850,  in  his  41st  year. 

He  married,  in  Louisville,  in  October,  1838,  Jennette 
Prindle,  a  teacher,  from  Monroe,  Connecticut,  who  died  in 
January,  1848.  Of  their  two  children,  a  daughter  survived 
her  parents. 

Samuel  Davies  Marshall,  son  of  John  Marshall,  a 
native  of  Ireland,  who  emigrated  to  Illinois,  was  born  in 
Knox  County  on  October  8,  18 12.  His  maternal  grand- 
father was  also  an  Irishman.  In  his  childhood  the  family 
removed  to  Shawneetown,  in  Gallatin  County. 

He  studied  law  and  settled  in  practice  in  Shawneetown, 
though  also  associated  with  his  father  in  trade,  and  at  one 
time  editor  of  the  Springfield  Republican. 

He  married,  on  November  12,  1837,  his  cousin,  Achsah 
Ann  Leech,  who  died  on  May  16,  1846. 

He  was  an  influential  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  a 
Whig  candidate  for  Congress,  and  one  of  the  Presidential 
Electors  on  the  Harrison  ticket  in  1840. 


244  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  the  war  with  Mexico  he  served  as  Major  of  a  regiment 
of  Illinois  volunteers  and  was  engaged  in  the  capture  of 
Vera  Cruz  in  1847. 

Late  in  life  he  went  to  reside  with  a  brother  in  White 
County,  but  on  a  visit  to  Shawneetown  he  died  very  sud- 
denly, on  April  12,  1854,  in  his  42d  year. 

Three  daughters  died  in  infancy;   a  son  survived  him. 

Phineas  Timothy  Miller,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
(Gilbert)  Miller,  of  Middletown,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
May  3,  1810. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  after  graduation,  for  study 
in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  where  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  1835.  He  then  practiced  his  profession  here 
until  1849,  with  the  exception  of  a  short  time  during  which 
he  was  in  business  in  New  York  City  as  an  apothecary. 
For  some  years  from  1841  he  had  charge  of  the  New 
Haven  Hospital. 

In  January,  1849,  he  sailed  from  this  city  in  the  schooner 
Montague  with  a  company  bound  for  California.  While  in 
the  mining  region  he  was  seized  with  chronic  dysentery,  and 
after  being  much  enfeebled  he  embarked  for  home  on  the 
ship  Clarissa  Perkins.  He  died  on  shipboard,  on  February 
21,  1850,  in  his  40th  year,  and  was  buried  at  sea. 

He  married,  in  Rocky  Hill  parish,  in  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, on  August  31,  1836,  Elvira,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Anna  (Butler)  Whitmore,  who  survived  him.  Their 
children  were  three  daughters  and  a  son.  The  son  and  one 
daughter  died  in  infancy. 

Nathaniel  Schuyler  Moore,  son  of  Usher  H.  and 
Catharine  (Terry)  Moore,  of  Upper  Aquebogue,  in  the 
town  of  Riverhead,  Long  Island,  was  born  in  the  summer 
of  1809.  A  nephew,  bearing  his  name,  was  graduated  in 
1861. 

He  was  known  to  his  classmates  as  a  gifted  writer,  both 
of  prose  and  poetry. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1833  245 

He  sailed  from  New  York  on  September  6,  1833,  o»  the 
ship  Florida,  for  Havre,  intending  to  pursue  medical  studies 
in  Paris.  When  within  sight  of  port,  on  September  28,  he 
died  from  the  effect  of  an  overdose  of  laudanum,  taken  to 
allay  excessive  neuralgic  pain  in  his  teeth  and  face.  He 
was  buried  in  Havre. 

George  Jackson  Morgan,  a  native  of  New  Orleans, 
entered  Yale  in  1830. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.   from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 

1837- 

He  then  returned  to  New  Orleans  for  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  In  1839  he  was  appointed  Demonstrator  of 
Anatomy  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of 
Louisiana,  but  died  of  pulmonary  consumption  in  New 
Orleans  in  May,  1840. 

James  Emlen  Newbold,  son  of  George  Newbold,  a 
banker,  and  Mary  (Emlen)  Newbold,  of  New  York  City, 
was  born  on  March  3,  181 5. 

He  was  intended  for  a  mercantile  life  in  New  York,  but 
was  early  afflicted  with  a  disease  of  the  brain,  which  never 
afterwards  left  him.  He  was  mainly  resident  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  died,  of  consumption,  on  August  27,  1859,  in 
his  45th  year. 

Alfred  Perkins,  the  second  son  of  General  Simon  and 
Nancy  Ann  (Bishop)  Perkins,  of  Warren,  Trumbull 
County,  Ohio,  was  born  on  March  19,  181 1.  His  father 
was  a  native  of  Lisbon,  Connecticut.  A  brother  was  grad- 
uated in  1842. 

After  leaving  College  he  assisted  his  father  in  his  business, 
but  on  a  tour  in  the  summer  of  1834  he  contracted  fever  and 
ague,  which  was  followed  by  a  severe  bilious  fever,  which 
so  affected  his  constitution  that  he  sank  into  a  confirmed 
consumption.     In  September,  1838.  he  went  to  the  south  of 


246  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Europe  in  quest  of  health,  but  returned  a  year  later  wit'it 
out  improvement.  He  died  in  Warren  on  March  31,  i8z;>f 
at  the  as;e  of  29.     He  was  unmarried.  i 

John  Phelps,  son  of  Captain  Seth  and  Phebe  ( Hastings y 
Phelps,  of  Sufifield,  Connecticut,  and  grandson  of  Aaron 
Phelps  (Yale  1758),  was  probably  born  in  1808.  John 
Lewis  (Yale  1868)  is  a  nephew. 

He  studied  law  in  Kingston,  New  York,  and  settled  in 
practice  there,  but  was  obliged  to  return  home  about  1846 
from  impaired  health.  A  year  later  he  went  West,  and  was 
heard  from  at  Chicago,  but  never  again. 

Stephen  Atwater  Potwine,  the  eldest  son  of  Stephen 
and  Mary  (Osborn)  Potwine,  of  East  Windsor,  and  grand- 
son of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Potwine  (Yale  1751),  was  born  on 
September  17,  1810. 

During  the  vacation  preceding  graduation  he  went  to 
Canada,  as  an  agent  for  circulating  a  controversial  anti- 
Romanist  work,  but  was  taken  ill  in  July,  and  was  unable 
to  attend  Commencement. 

He  reached  home  in  September,  and  died  there,  of  con- 
sumption, on  March  4,  1834,  in  his  24th  year. 

He  was  intending  to  study  for  the  ministry. 

Robert  Robertson,  son  of  Robert  and  Frances  Robert- 
son, of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  on  February  3,  1813, 
and  entered  Yale  in  1830. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  William  Max- 
well (Yale  1802),  of  Norfolk,  but  never  practiced,  preferring 
to  devote  himself  to  belles-lettres  and  general  science.  From 
1836  to  1839  he  was  Secretary  to  Commodore  Jesse  Wilkin- 
son on  the  frigate  United  States,  of  the  Mediterranean 
squadron.  From  1841  to  1845  he  was  Secretary  to  the 
successive  officers  in  command  of  the  United  States  Ship 
of  the  Line  Pennsylvania,  stationed  at  Norfolk. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 833  247 

He  died  in  Norfolk,  after  a  brief  illness,  from  inflamma- 
shn  of  the  bowels,  on  August  4,  1845,  aged  32^/^  years.     He 
ifis  never  married, 
d 

Jeremiah  Smith  entered  College  from  Santa  Cruz, 
West  Indies,  in  1830. 

He  returned  home  after  graduation,  to  find  that  his  prop- 
erty had  been  dissipated  by  embezzlement.  He  then  went 
to  Philadelphia,  and  engaged  in  a  limited  mercantile  busi- 
ness, in  which  his  success  was  small.  He  is  supposed  to 
have  died  there  in  1853,  in  his  41st  year. 
He  was  married,  and  had  several  children. 

John  Marshall  Fayette  Stoddard,  the  eldest  son  of 
Ebenezer  and  Lucy  (Carroll)  Stoddard,  of  (West)  Wood- 
stock, Connecticut,  was  born  on  June  30,  181 3.  His  father 
was  prominent  in  the  Toleration  party  in  the  State,  and  was 
a  Member  of  Congress  from  182 1  to  1825,  and  Lieutenant 
Governor  for  four  terms  (1833-34,  and  1835-38). 

He  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Windham 
County  in  1836;  but  died  of  consumption  in  his  native 
parish,  on  May  6,  1837,  in  his  24th  year. 

Moses  Brown  Stuart,  the  youngest  son  of  Professor 
Moses  Stuart  (Yale  1799),  of  Andover,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  October  18,  18 13. 

On  graduation,  he  went  to  Beaufort,  South  Carolina, 
where  he  assisted  his  oldest  brother  (Yale  1828)  in  a  High 
School,  while  also  pursuing  his  studies,  for  about  a  year. 
He  then  went  to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  was  engaged 
in  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  William  W. 
Ellsworth  (Yale  1810)  until  his  very  sudden  death,  from 
hemorrhage  of  the  bowels,  during  a  slow  typhus  fever,  on 
October  23,  1835,  at  the  age  of  22. 

Charles  Turner  Torrey,  the  only  son  of  Charles  and 
Hannah  Tolman  Torrey,  of  Scituate.  Massachusetts,  was 


240  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

born  on  November  21,  181 3,  and  bore  the  name  of  his  mater- 
nal grandfather.  His  parents  died  in  his  infancy,  and, he 
was  brought  up  by  his  mother's  family,  who  settled  in 
1827  in  Chelsea,  whence  he  entered  College  at  the  opening 
of  Sophomore  year. 

In  the  autumn  after  graduation  he  became  Principal  of 
the  Female  Seminary  in  West  Brookfield,  but  resigned  after 
four  months.  In  October,  1834,  he  entered  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  but  left  at  the  end  of  a  year,  on 
account  of  precarious  health  and  straitened  circumstances. 
A  long  journey  on  foot,  and  abundant  rest,  restored  his 
health  so  that  he  was  able  in  the  fall  of  1835  to  resume  his 
studies  under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Luke  A.  Spofford  (Mid- 
dlebury  Coll.  181 5),  of  Scituate. 

In  June,  1836,  he  went  to  West  Medway,  for  further 
study  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jacob  Ide  (Brown  Univ.  1809). 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Mendon  Association  on 
October  25,  1836,  and  on  March  22,  1837,  was  ordained  and 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Richmond  Street  Congregational 
Church  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  One  week  later,  on 
March  29,  he  was  married  to  Mary,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Ide,  and  granddaughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathanael 
Emmons  (Yale  1767). 

His  stay  in  Providence  was  short,  as  he  was  dismissed  in 
October  at  his  own  request.  He  soon  accepted  a  call  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  Howard  Street  Congregational  Church  in 
Salem,  Massachusetts  (as  successor  of  the  Rev.  George  B. 
Cheever),  where  he  was  installed  on  January  4,  1838. 

For  several  years  he  had  been  intensely  interested  in 
opposition  to  slavery,  and  as  opportunities  to  labor  in  that 
cause  were  increased  he  found  it  necessary  to  choose 
between  the  pastorate  and  these  calls.  He  accordingly 
thought  it  his  duty  to  resign  his  charge  on  July  21,  1839, 
and  give  his  time  to  lecturing  on  slavery  and  to  editorial 
work  in  the  same  behalf. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1834  249 

In  December,  1841,  he  went  to  Washington  as  corre- 
spondent for  several  papers,  and  in  January,  1842,  suffered 
a  brief  detention  in  jail  for  attending  as  reporter  a  slave- 
holders' convention  in  Annapolis. 

In  the  following  autumn  he  went  to  Albany  as  editor  of 
the  daily  Tocsin  of  Liberty,  later  the  Albany  Patriot,  and 
remained  for  one  year,  although  the  enterprise  proved 
unsuccessful. 

About  the  first  of  May,  1844,  he  went  to  Baltimore,  to 
make  that  his  headquarters  while  assisting  slaves  in  Mary- 
land and  Virginia  to  escape  to  the  North. 

On  June  24  he  was  arrested  in  Baltimore,  on  the  com- 
plaint of  a  Virginia  slave-dealer,  for  aiding  slaves  to  escape, 
and  this  was  immediately  followed  by  similar  action  on  the 
part  of  a  Maryland  citizen.  The  latter  suit  took  precedence, 
and  he  was  thrown  into  the  city  jail  to  await  trial.  After 
a  delay  due  to  his  feeble  health,  the  trial  began  on  Novem- 
ber 29.  He  was  convicted,  and  sentenced  to  six  years'  hard 
labor  in  the  State  Penitentiary. 

In  the  summer  of  1845  ^'^is  health  began  to  be  decidedly 
affected  by  his  imprisonment,  and  the  danger  of  pulmonary 
consumption  seemed  so  imminent  as  to  induce  vigorous 
efforts  by  his  friends  for  his  pardon  and  release.  These 
were  unsuccessful,  and  he  died  in  prison  on  May  9,  1846,  in 
his  33d  year.     He  was  buried  in  Mount  Auburn  Cemetery. 

His  widow  died  in  West  Medway  on  November  6,  1869. 
aged  52  years.     Their  children  were  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

A  Memoir,  by  Joseph  C.  Lovejoy  (Bowdoin  Coll.  1829) 
was  published  in  1847. 

CLASS  OF    1834 

George  Anson  Oliver  Beaumont,  the  only  child  of 
Oliver  and  Esther  (Clarke)  Beaumont,  of  Columbia,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  April  7,  1812.     He  was  a  nephew  of 


250  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Asahel  Clarke  (Yale  1797),  and  first  cousin  of  the  Rev. 
William  B.  Clarke  (Yale  1849).  ^^is  father  died  in  his 
infancy. 

He  spent  the  two  years  succeeding  graduation  in  the  Yale 
Law  School,  and  in  1836  removed  with  his  mother  to 
Chicago,  where  he  established  himself  in  practice.  He  was 
highly  successful;  but  in  the  spring  of  1845  was  obliged  by 
illness  to  return  to  Columbia,  where  he  died  on  December 
18,  in  his  34th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

William  Shedden  Burr,  son  of  David  Judson  Burr,  of 
Richmond,  Virginia,  was  born  on  June  7,  1814.  His 
mother,  Annabella  Shedden,  was  the  widow  of  Aaron  Burr 
Reeve  (Yale  1802),  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  and  Troy, 
New  York.  He  entered  College  in  183 1.  A  brother  was 
graduated  in  1839,  and  a  half-brother  in  1829. 

He  engaged  in  iron  manufacturing  in  Richmond, — a  busi- 
ness inherited  from  his  father. 

He  married,  in  Geneva,  New  York,  on  December  7,  1853, 
Laura  P.,  daughter  of  the  late  Judge  Lewis  H.  Sandford,  of 
New  York  City,  who  died  in  Richmond  on  July  15,  1857, 
in  her  22d  year.  He  died  in  Richmond  on  December  17, 
1858,  in  his  45th  year,  leaving  one  son. 

Joseph  Fowler,  son  of  Eliseus  and  Sally  (Knox)  Fow- 
ler, of  Blandford,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  August  9, 
1809.  His  residence  during  the  first  half  of  the  College 
course  was  in  Hartford,  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  and  during 
the  last  half  in  Licking  County. 

After  a  brief  experience  as  a  teacher,  he  entered  Lane 
Theological  Seminary,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Cincinnati  in  1837. 

In  1839  he  was  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Alton, 
while  supplying  the  church  in  Jerseyville,  Jersey  County, 
Illinois.     He  ended  his  engagement  there  in  1840,  and  was 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1834  251 

married  on  March  23,  1841,  to  Eliza  A.,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Amos  P.  Brown,  a  retired  minister  living  in  Jerseyville. 

He  was  next  employed  in  York,  Medina  County,  Ohio, 
for  a  brief  engagement,  and  in  October,  1845,  took  charge 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Lacon,  Marshall  County,  Illi- 
nois, where  he  remained  as  stated  supply  for  seven  years. 
His  later  years  were  spent  in  the  service  of  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society,  in  Astoria,  Rushville,  and 
finally,  from  November,  1856,  in  Magnolia,  all  in  Illinois. 
He  died  in  Magnolia  on  September  16,  1857,  in  his  49th 
year.     He  was  buried  in  Lacon. 

His  life  had  been  spent  in  doing  good  and  in  building  up 
feeble  churches. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  three  daughters  and  one 
son, — another  son  having  died  in  infancy. 

Henry  Sewall  Gerrish  French  was  born  in  Boscawen, 
near  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  on  April  27,  1807,  the  sec- 
ond son  of  Joel  and  Susannah  (Gerrish)  French.  He  had 
been  a  printer  before  entering  College. 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  and  being  accepted  as  a  missionary 
by  the  American  Board  was  ordained  on  September   19, 

1837. 

He  married,  on  April  9,  1839,  Sarah  Catharine  Allison,  of 
Concord,  the  eldest  child  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  Carter 
(Bronson)  Allison,  of  Castine,  Maine. 

They  sailed  from  Boston  on  July  6,  1839,  for  Siam,  and 
arrived  in  October  at  Singapore.  It  had  been  arranged 
that  Mr.  French  should  take  charge  of  the  printing  for  the 
mission,  and  he  spent  some  months  in  learning  the  language 
and  in  preparing  a  font  of  type.  He  reached  Bangkok  in 
May,  1840,  and  was  beginning  to  use  the  language  with 
some  facility  when  consumption  developed  in  May,  1841. 
After  some  months  of  great  weakness  he  died  in  Bangkok 
on  February  14,  1842,  in  his  35th  year. 


252  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  wife  returned  to  America  in  April,  1844,  on  account 
of  the  delicate  health  of  their  only  child,  a  son.  She  died 
in  Greeley,  Colorado,  on  April  9,  1882,  in  her  72d  year. 

Job  Swift  Gold_,  son  of  Deacon  Benjamin  and  Eleanor 
(Johnson)  Gold,  of  Cornwall,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
November  27,  1810.  His  eldest  brother  was  graduated  in 
1806. 

He  was  for  one  year  a  student  in  the  Yale  Law  School ; 
and  on  October  28,  1835,  married  Catharine  B.,  daughter  of 
Anthony  and  Rebecca  (Clark)  Smith,  of  Washington,  Con- 
necticut. 

During  the  rest  of  his  life  he  was  associated  with  his 
brother,  Stephen  J.  Gold,  in  the  manufacture  of  cooking 
and  other  stoves  and  of  general  heating  apparatus,  and  in 
the  development  of  inventions  and  improvements  in  this 
business. 

He  died  of  consumption  in  Philadelphia  on  June  18, 
1844,  in  his  34th  year.     Four  sons  survived  him. 

Daniel  Emerson  Hall,  son  of  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Hall 
(Dartmouth  Coll.  1790)  and  Hannah  (Emerson)  Hall,  of 
Granville,  Washington  County,  New  York,  was  born  on 
May  9,  1810,  and  entered  the  Class  in  1831.  The  Rev. 
Ralph  Emerson  (Yale  181 1)  was  an  uncle.  His  father  died 
in  1820. 

He  studied  law  with  his  brother,  Willis  Hall  (Yale  1824), 
in  New  York  City,  and  settled  in  practice  in  Mobile,  Ala- 
bama, where  his  brother  had  practiced  from  1827  to  1831. 

He  died  in  Mobile  on  April  24,  1852,  at  the  age  of  42. 

He  married  Delphine  E.  Kennedy,  of  Mobile.  Three 
children  survived  him. 

John  VandenHeuvel  Ingersoll,  the  eldest  child  of 
Ralph    I.    Ingersoll    (Yale    1808)    and    Margaret    C.    E. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 834  253 

(VandenHeuvel)  Ingersoll,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on 
May  7,  1815. 

He  studied  law,  and  established  himself  in  Ravenna, 
Portage  County,  Ohio,  but  was  diverted  from  the  practice 
of  his  profession  by  serving  for  several  years  as  secretary 
to  an  Indian  Commission,  and  by  editing  a  political  paper. 

In  October,  1840,  he  was  appointed  Register  of  the  Land 
Office  at  Mineral  Point,  Wisconsin,  but  retained  the  position 
for  less  than  a  year. 

He  then  returned  to  his  editorial  work,  but  in  1845  went 
to  Sandusky  to  resume  law  practice.  At  the  beginning  of 
June,  1846,  he  went  to  Scott's  Point,  on  Lake  Erie,  beyond 
Sandusky  Bay,  on  a  fishing  excursion,  where  he  was 
drowned  on  June  5,  in  his  32d  year. 

William  Stoddard  Johnston,  son  of  the  Hon.  Josiah 
Stoddard  Johnston,  of  New  Orleans,  a  native  of  Salisbury, 
Connecticut,  and  United  States  Senator  from  Louisiana 
from  1823  to  his  death  in  1833,  was  born  in  181 5.  His 
mother,  Eliza  Sibley,  married  the  Hon.  Henry  D.  Gilpin 
(Univ.  Pa.  1819),  of  Philadelphia,  in  1835.  General  Albert 
Sidney  Johnston  was  a  half-brother  of  his  father;  and 
William  Preston  Johnston  (Yale  1852)  and  J.  Stoddard 
Johnston  (Yale  1853)  were  his  cousins.  He  entered  Yale 
in  1833. 

He  studied  law  and  settled  in  practice  in  his  native  State. 

He  married  Miss  Williams,  of  Alexandria,  Rapides 
County,  and  is  believed  to  have  died  in  Alexandria  in  1839, 
at  the  age  of  24. 

A  son  survived  him. 

John  Noyes,  the  only  child  of  Dr.  Richard  and  Martha 
(Noyes)  Noyes,  of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  Jan- 
uary (or  June?)  22,  1815. 

He  studied  medicine  for  two  years  in  the  Yale  Medical 
School,  where  he  received  his  degree  in  1836.     He  began 


254  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

practice  in  Lockport,  New  York,  but  in  1838  returned  to  his 
native  town,  where  he  followed  his  profession  and  won  the 
entire  regard  of  the  community. 

He  died  in  Lyme,  of  consumption,  on  October  26,  1854,  in 
his  40th  year. 

He  married,  in  1839,  Anna  Colton,  of  Maryland ;  and 
after  her  death  he  married,  in  1849,  Edwardanna,  daughter 
of  Edward  L.  and  Anna  Matilda  (Stewart)  Schieffelin,  of 
New  York,  and  widow  of  Dr.  Francis  Nicoll  Sill  of  Staten 
Island,  who  had  died  in  May,  1848. 

Two  sons  by  his  first  wife  survived  him. 

His  widow  next  married  Captain  Mather  Chadwick,  of 
Lyme. 

Henry  Pomroy,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Ruth  (Hunt)  Pom- 
roy,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  March  6,  1814, 
and  entered  Yale  in  1831. 

He  taught  in  Natchez,  Mississippi,  for  two  or  three  years, 
and  then  became  a  merchant  in  Hartford,  Connecticut. 
About  1843  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  for  about  twelve  years,  with 
his  residence  on  Staten  Island. 

Assiduous  application  to  business  brought  on  softening  of 
the  brain,  and  he  died  in  Coventry  on  February  i,  1858,  in 
his  44th  year. 

He  married,  on  April  10,  185 1,  Jane  Harris,  of  New  York 
City,  who  survived  him,  without  children. 

Charles  Roger  Welles,  second  son  of  the  Hon.  Martin 
Welles  (Yale  1806),  of  Farmington,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  August  26,  1812.  His  father  settled  in  Wethersfield,  his 
native  place,  in  1820. 

He  spent  more  than  a  year  after  graduation  at  the  West, 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  and  then  began  the  study  of 
law  in  Newburgh,  New  York  (where  his  father  had  lived 
in  infancy),  and  completed  it  in  the  Yale  Law  School. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1834  255 

In  1840  he  settled  in  Springfield,  Illinois,  where  he  soon 
obtained  an  extensive  and  lucrative  practice.  He  was  also 
very  active  in  religious  matters,  and  was  an  Elder  in  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church.  He  married,  on  July  8,  184 1, 
Mary  Louisa,  daughter  of  Cleveland  J.  and  Susan  Clarinda 
Salter,  formerly  of  New  Haven,  and  half-sister  of  Charles 
C.  Salter  (Yale  1852). 

He  died  in  Springfield  on  July  23,  1854,  in  his  42d  year. 

His  wife  died  in  Elwyn,  Pennsylvania,  on  March  7,  1900, 
at  the  age  of  81 ;  of  their  six  children,  only  one  son,  for  a 
time  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1870,  lived  to  maturity. 

Samuel  Goodrich  Whittelsey,  the  eldest  child  of  the 
Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey  (Yale  1803),  of  New  Preston 
Society,  in  Washington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 8,  1809.  His  parents  were  living  in  Utica,  New  York, 
when  he  entered  College;  and  removed  to  New  York  City 
in  his  Senior  year. 

He  entered  in  1836  on  a  College  tutorship,  which  he  held 
for  two  years.  In  the  meantime,  in  1837,  he  began  the 
study  of  theology  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Litchfield  South  Association  in 

1839- 
After  his  graduation  from  the  Seminary  in  1840,  he  was 

accepted  as  a  missionary  by  the  American  Board,  and  was 
ordained  at  New  Haven  on  January  10,  1841.  He  was 
married,  in  New  York,  on  September  29,  to  Anna  Cook, 
daughter  of  Jabez  and  Hannah  (Coe)  Mills,  of  Morristown. 
New  Jersey. 

On  October  14,  1841,  they  sailed  from  Boston  for  Ceylon, 
and  arrived  at  Jaffna  on  April  i.  1842.  In  1843  ^i^  was  put 
in  charge  of  the  Mission  Female  Seminary  in  Oodooville. 
About  two  years  later,  on  account  of  impaired  health,  he 
was  transferred  to  the  adjoining  continent,  and  he  died 
in  Dindigal,  about  thirty  miles  north  of  Madura,  from  an 


256  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

inflammatory  fever,  brought  on  by  fatigue  and  exposure, 
on  March  10,  1847,  in  his  38th  year. 

His  widow  returned  to  America  in  1848;  and  afterwards 
married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thornton  A.  Mills  (Miami  Univ. 
1830). 

Of  his  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  the  only  one 
surviving  infancy  was  graduated  here  in  1864. 


CLASS  OF    1835 

John  Stearns  Abbott,  son  of  Alexander  and  Elizabeth 
(Hatch)  Abbott,  of  Tolland,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  July 
22,  1814. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law,  in  part  in  the  Yale  Law 
School  (1836-37),  and  then  went  to  Michigan,  where  he 
established  his  residence  in  the  suburbs  of  Detroit,  and 
entered  on  practice  in  that  city. 

On  March  31,  1845,  he  married  Lucy  Maria,  second 
daughter  of  ex-Governor  William  Woodbridge,  then  United 
States  Senator  from  Michigan. 

He  sustained  a  high  reputation  at  the  bar,  but  died  of 
pulmonary  disease,  at  his  residence  in  Springwells,  on  the 
borders  of  Detroit,  on  September  26,  1852,  in  his  39th  year. 

His  widow  married  William  Henderson,  of  Detroit,  in 
August,  1858,  and  died  on  April  6,  i860,  in  her  38th  year. 

His  children,  two  daughters  and  a  son,  survived  him. 

James  Calvin  Briggs,  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Calvin 
Briggs  (Williams  Coll.  1803)  and  Rebecca  (Monroe) 
Briggs,  of  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  and  grandson  of  the 
Rev.  James  Briggs  (Yale  1775),  was  born  on  December  30, 
1814.  A  sister  married  the  Rev.  David  T.  Stoddard  (Yale 
1838). 

He  attended  one  course  of  lectures  in  the  Medical  School 
in  Woodstock,  Vermont,  and  supplementary  courses  in  Bos- 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1835  257 

ton,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1839  ^''O'"  the 
Castleton  (Vermont)  Medical  Colleg-e. 

After  a  few  months  spent  in  Salem,  he  began  practice  in 
Marblehead,  and,  like  his  father,  attained  unusual  success. 

He  married,  on  April  18,  1848,  Harriet  Emeline,  daughter 
of  John  and  Emma  (Stewart)  Glover,  of  Marblehead,  who 
died  on  April  13,  1852,  in  her  35th  year. 

He  next  married,  on  September  8,  1854,  Catharine  T. 
Whidden. 

He  died  in  Marblehead  on  December  18,  1856,  at  the  age 
of  42.  By  each  marriage  he  had  a  daughter ;  both  died  in 
infancy. 

John  Davis,  the  third  son  of  Isaac  and  Polly  (Rice) 
Davis,  of  Trenton,  Maine,  and  a  nephew  of  the  Hon.  John 
Davis  (Yale  1812),  was  born  on  October  25,  1813.  In  1819 
his  parents  returned  to  their  native  place,  Northboro, 
Worcester  County,  ]\Iassachusetts. 

He  studied  law,  partly  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  (1835- 
36),  and  in  1837  established  himself  in  practice  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri. 

His  successful  pursuit  of  his  profession  was  interrupted 
in  1843  by  a  pulmonary  attack,  which  obliged  him  in  June, 
1844,  to  return  to  his  home,  where  he  died  on  September 
20,  in  his  31st  year. 

HowLAND  Dawes,  son  of  John  and  Dolly  (Shaw)  Dawes, 
of  Cummington,  Hampshire  County,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  February  12,  1809.  His  birthplace  was  on  the 
border  of  Windsor,  Berkshire  County,  which  he  also  some- 
times called  his  residence.  Henry  L.  Dawes  (Yale  1839) 
was  a  first  cousin. 

He  taught  in  the  Academy  in  Stonington,  Connecticut, 
for  a  year  or  two  after  graduation,  and  in  April,  or  May, 
1837,  married  Mrs.  Harriet  (Miner)  Wilbur,  a  .  native 
of  Stonington. 

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258  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

He  afterwards  taught  in  Middletown  and  Glastonbury, 
and  later  removed  to  Sag  Harbor  and  East  Hampton,  Long 
Island,  where  he  studied  theology  and  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Presbytery. 

He  ministered  to  several  churclics,  but  soon  returned  to 
Massachusetts,  and  died  in  Lynn,  from  inflammation  of  the 
lungs,  on  January  17,  1847,  in  his  38th  year.  He  was  buried 
in  Stonington,  where  his  widow  was  laid  by  his  side  some 
years  later.     They  had  no  children. 

Joseph  Brush  Fenton  was  born  in  Norwich,  New  York, 
on  July  4,  181 5,  and  removed  with  his  parents  to  Palmyra  in 
1828.     He  entered  Yale  in  1832. 

He  studied  law  in  Troy  during  the  winter  after  gradua- 
tion, and  with  William  H.  Seward  in  1836-37. 

He  then  practiced  law  in  Palmyra  and  New  York  City 
until  1845,  when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati. 

He  died  in  Cincinnati  of  typhoid  fever  on  February  25, 
1848,  in  his  33d  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  Alonzo  Gager,  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Cynthia 
(Meech)  Gager,  of  Bozrah,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
March  15,  1814. 

He  was  the  Rector  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven  for  a  year  after  graduation,  and  then  entered 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  while  continuing  his  studies 
served  for  two  years  (1837-39)  as  a  Tutor  in  the  College. 
He  then  went  to  the  Andover  Seminary  for  a  year's  addi- 
tional study,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  in  the  spring  of 
1840. 

He  then  went  on  an  extended  tour  to  the  East,  and  after 
having  visited  southern  Europe  and  Palestine,  he  was  pros- 
trated during  his  passage  up  the  Nile  by  an  attack  of  typhus 
fever,  which  caused  his  death  in  Cairo  on  November  16, 
1841,  in  his  28th  year. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    1 835  259 

James  Hervey  Howe  was  born,  probably  in  Bedford, 
New  York,  in  1816,  and  entered  College  from  New  York 
City.    After  his  graduation  the  family  home  was  in  Bedford. 

He  entered  on  a  tutorship  in  Yale  in  the  fall  of  1838,  and 
performed  his  duties  there,  while  also  studying  in  the 
Divinity  School,  until  July,  1840,  when  a  sudden  mental 
break-down  interrupted  all  his  work. 

He  recovered  himself  so  as  to  receive  a  license  to  preach 
from  the  Litchfield  South  Association  in  1842. 

In  February,  1844,  he  began  to  supply  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Washington  Hollow,  Duchess  County,  New 
York,  with  the  result  that  in  April  he  received  a  unanimous 
invitation  to  serve  them  for  one  year.  He  was  accordingly 
ordained  as  an  Evangelist  in  Washington  Hollow  on  May 
22,  and  remained  in  charge  of  that  church  until  the  close 
of  1847.  He  had  been  in  delicate  health  for  several  years, 
and  consumption  was  now  so  far  advanced  that  he  was 
forced  to  retire  to  his  mother's  house  in  Bedford,  where  he 
died  on  March  25,  1849,  '"  ^is  33d  year.    He  was  unmarried. 

Algernon  Sidney  Mitchell,  son  of  Dr.  Mannaduke 
and  Mary  B.  (Temple)  Mitchell,  of  Shelbyville,  Bedford 
County,  Tennessee,  was  born  on  September  i.  1816.  His 
parents  were  natives  of  North  Carolina,  and  removed  to 
Madison  County,  Mississippi,  shortly  before  he  entered 
College  in  1834. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Madison  County  and 
became  a  planter.  He  was  also  greatly  interested  in  poli- 
tics, and  represented  the  County  in  the  Legislature.  He 
edited  at  one  time  the  American  Citizen,  a  Whig  newspaper 
published  in  Madison  County. 

For  several  years  before  his  death  he  suffcrefl  severely 
from  a  serious  spinal  disease.  He  died  on  September  26. 
1874,  at  the  age  of  58. 

He  married,  about  1837,  Martha  E..  daughter  of  John 
and  Rachel  P.  Tillman,  of  Shelbyville,  Tennessee,  who  died 


26o  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

soon  after  the  birth  of  her  first  child,  a  son,  who  was  killed 
in  the  Confederate  army. 

A  year  or  two  after  her  death  Mr.  Mitchell  married  her 
sister,  Mary  Ann,  wdio  died  twelve  or  thirteen  years  later, 
leaving  one  son. 

About  two  years  after  her  death  he  married  a  third  sister, 
Lucy  R.  Tillman,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter. 

After  his  death  his  widow  married  the  Rev.  Mr.  Quinn. 

George  Washington  Olney,  son  of  Colonel  Anthony 
and  Patty  (Crane)  Olney,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  July  25,  181 5,  and  entered  Amherst  College 
from  Waterford,  New  York,  in  183 1.  He  came  from 
Amherst  to  Yale  in  1833,  as  a  resident  of  Cincinnati. 

He  studied  law,  and  was  for  a  time  associated  in  practice 
in  St.  Louis  with  Henry  W.  Billings  (Amherst  Coll.  1834), 
who  married  his  sister. 

He  settled  later  in  southern  Illinois,  and  was  successful, 
holding  the  position  of  Attorney  General  from  June,  1838, 
to  February,  1839. 

He  died  of  cholera  in  Chicago  on  August  5,  1850,  at  the 
age  of  35. 

Edward  William  Smith,  the  youngest  son  of  the  Rev. 
Daniel  Smith  (Yale  1791),  of  Stamford,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  September  2,  181 3.  He  entered  College  in  1830, 
but  left  the  Class  of  1834  early  in  his  Senior  year  on  account 
of  severe  suffering  from  asthma,  and  returned  a  year  later. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School  for  two  years 
(1836-38),  and  began  practice  in  New  York  City.  But 
successive  attacks  of  sudden  illness  greatly  dispirited  him, 
and  finally  caused  his  death,  in  New  York,  on  April  7, 
1841,  in  his  28th  year. 

Henry  Smith,  son  of  Deacon  Norman  and  Mary  (Board- 
man)  Smith,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  March 
20,  1813,  and  was  admitted  to  College  in  1830,  but  withdrew 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1835  261 

soon  and  reentered  a  year  later.  A  brother  was  graduated 
in  1826. 

After  graduation  his  health  seemed  too  delicate  to  allow 
of  his  following  a  profession.  He  therefore  took  up  an 
active  business  life,  in  the  employ  of  his  brothers,  who  had 
large  manufacturing  and  other  interests  in  Hartford  and 
in  New  Orleans. 

After  some  years  his  health  was  found  to  be  again  grad- 
ually failing,  and  he  was  obliged  to  make  a  change  of 
occupation  and  to  seek  a  milder  climate.  With  this  in 
view  he  went  to  New  Orleans  in  the  spring  of  1846,  in 
quest  of  an  estate,  in  the  cultivation  of  which  he  might 
employ  himself.  On  May  14,  while  crossing  the  Hay  of 
St.  Louis,  on  the  southern  coast  of  Mississippi,  about  fifty 
miles  from  New  Orleans,  to  examine  a  farm  which  had 
been  offered  him,  he  was  drowned  by  the  capsizing  of  the 
boat. 

He  married,  on  November  27.  1838,  Harriet  Irwin,  sec- 
ond daughter  of  Captain  Francis  and  Harriet  (Robbins) 
Stillman,  of  Wethersfield,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter. 

Mrs.  Smith  married,  in  May,  1849,  Henry  Ferre,  Junior, 
of  Wethersfield,  and  died  on  December  22,  1898,  in  her 
82d  year. 

John  Cotton  Smith,  the  next  older  brother  of  his  class- 
mate, Edward  William  Smith,  noticed  above,  was  born  in 
Stamford  on  April  6,  181 1,  and  had  been  engaged  in  busi- 
ness before  coming  to  College. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Medical  School,  and 
while  still  a  student  died  suddenly  in  Stamford,  while  recov- 
ering from  an  attack  of  scarlet  fever,  on  January  14,  1837, 
in  his  26th  year.  His  was  the  first  death  among  the 
graduates  of  the  Class. 

Caleb  Strong,  the  second  son  of  Lewis  Strong  (Harvard 
1803)  and  Maria  (Chester)  Strong,  of  Northampton,  Mas- 
sachusetts,   and    grandson    of     Governor     Caleb     Strong 


262  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

(Harvard  1764),  was  born  on  January  31,  1816,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1832. 

He  studied  theology,  in  part  (1837-38)  in  the  Yale 
Divinity  School,  and  while  still  a  resident  licentiate  in  New 
Haven,  he  was  ordained  on  October  16,  1838,  at  Oxford,  as 
an  Evangelist. 

He  was  installed  on  September  29,  1839,  as  pastor  of  the 
American  Presbyterian  Church  in  Montreal.  Canada,  and 
was  greatly  esteemed  in  that  relation. 

He  died  in  Montreal,  after  two  days'  severe  illness,  from 
appendicitis,  on  January  4,  1847,  at  the  age  of  31. 

He  married,  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  on  May  26, 
1840,  Catharine  Sophia,  daughter  of  the  late  Stephen  Mix 
Mitchell,  Junior  (Yale  1794),  of  Burlington,  Vennont,  who 
died  on  September  4,  1843.    Their  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

He  next  married,  on  May  14,  1846,  Maria  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Amos  M.  and  Mary  (Lyman)  Collins,  of  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  who  long  survived  him. 

William  Wallace  Wilcox,  the  eldest  child  of  Jonathan 
Samuel  and  Chloe  (Hand)  Wilcox,  of  (East)  Guilford, 
now  Madison,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  July  22,  1816. 
Two  long  and  ver)^  serious  illnesses  while  in  College 
impaired  his  health  permanently. 

He  taught  school  in  Clinton  for  a  year  after  graduation, 
and  then  entered  the  law-office  of  his  uncle.  Judge  George 
E.  Hand  (Yale  1829),  of  Detroit,  but  was  obliged  by  ill 
health  to  return  home  a  year  later. 

He  was  able,  however,  for  nearly  two  years  (1837-39)  to 
have  the  charge  of  Lee's  Academy,  in  Madison,  where  he 
had  himself  been  fitted  for  College. 

On'  leaving  here  he  was  compelled  to  go  South  for  his 
health,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Augusta,  Georgia,  in 
1839;  but  after  temporary  improvement  he  returned  home 
to  await  death,  from  consumption,  which  ensued  on  June 
27,  1841,  in  his  25th  year. 


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CLASS   OF    1836 

Henry  Wright  Bacon,  son  of  Dr.  Leonard  and  Sophia 
(Wright)  Bacon,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
December  12,  1816.  He  was  a  first  cousin  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Leonard  Bacon  (Yale  1820). 

In  April  1837,  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and 
after  completing  his  studies  there  in  1838,  opened  an  office 
in  Richmond,  Virginia,  where  he  continued  for  two  or  three 
years.  He  then  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  prac- 
ticed for  about  the  same  length  of  time. 

He  then  relinquished  his  profession,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile business  in  Boston.  While  there  his  health  failed, 
from  a  chronic  disease  of  the  liver,  and  he  spent  a  year  or 
two  in  travel. 

He  died  on  November  19,  1845,  while  on  his  way  from 
Peoria,  Illinois,  to  St.  Louis,  in  a  private  carriage  with  a 
driver,  expiring  so  quietly  that  his  death  was  unobserved 
at  the  time. 

Thomas  Bailey,  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Susanna 
(Bailey)  Bailey,  of  Little  Compton,  Rhode  Island,  was  born 
on  December  21,  1810. 

He  was  intending  to  become  a  minister,  but  it  was  very 
soon  evident  after  graduation  that  his  failing  health  would 
not  permit  this.  He  found  occupation  mainly  in  traveling 
as  an  agent  for  subscriptions  to  popular  periodicals. 

While  in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  in  1850,  the 
pulmonary  disease,  from  which  he  had  long  sufifered,  made 
rapid  progress,  and  he  died  there  on  July  19,  in  his  40th 
year.  He  was  buried  in  Washington.  He  was  never 
married. 

James  McKinlay  Daves,  the  eldest  child  of  John  Pugh 
and  Jane  Reid  (Henry)  Daves,  of  Newbern,  North  Caro- 
lina, was  born  on  December  27,  1816,  and  entered  Yale  at 


264  BIOGFLAPHICAL    NOTICES 

the  opening  of  Sophomore  year.  A  younger  sister  married 
John  W.  Elhs  (Univ.  of  N.  C.  1841),  Governor  of  North 
CaroHna  from  1859  to  1861. 

He  became  a  planter,  and  died  by  his  own  hand  in  New- 
bern,  on  July  2,  1838,  in  his  226.  year. 

William  Hackett  Eaton,  the  son  of  Deacon  William 
and  Polly  (Hackett)  Eaton,  of  Newburyport,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  on  December  i,  181 1,  and  entered  Yale  as  a 
resident  of  Andover.  In  Senior  year  his  residence  was  in 
Bradford. 

Nothing  is  known  of  him  after  graduation,  except  that 
he  was  teaching"  in  Mississippi  in  1839. 

James  Fergusson,  son  of  Judge  John  Fergusson,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  and  of  Elizabeth  (Turner)  Fergusson,  of 
Charles  County,  Maryland,  was  born  on  March  11,  18 16, 
and  entered  College  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year,  with 
his  residence  in  Port  Tobacco. 

He  studied  law  in  Baltimore  in  the  office  of  James  Mason 
Campbell,  and  began  practice  in  that  city  with  the  fairest 
prospects.  His  strenuous  application  to  his  work,  how- 
ever, undermined  his  health,  and  he  was  before  long  obliged 
to  retire  to  his  old  home  in  the  country. 

He  married,  on  December  27,  1849,  Amelia,  youngest 
daughter  of  General  John  Matthew,  of  Charles  County,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  who  survived  him. 

He  died  of  typhoid  fever  on  October  28,  1854,  in  his 
39th  year. 

Jonathan  Grout,  son  of  Moses  and  Catharine  (War- 
ren) Grout,  of  Westboro,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  June 
13,  181 1,  and  spent  his  Freshman  year  with  the  Class  of 
1835.  He  was  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Grout  (Har- 
vard 1790),  of  Hawley;  and  a  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1840. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 836  265 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  teaching  at  the 
South,  and  then  studied  theology  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jacob 
Ide  (Brown  Univ.  1809),  of  West  Medway,  Massachusetts. 
He  received  a  Hcense  to  preach,  but  did  not  proceed  to 
ordination. 

He  married,  on  June  2,  1842,  Florella  Alills,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  David  Holman  (Brown  Univ.  1803)  and 
Clarissa  (Packard)  Holman,  of  Douglas,  who  died  in  West- 
boro,  of  consumption,  on  December  11,  1844,  in  her  28th 
year. 

In  1846  he  removed  from  Westboro  to  Ohio,  and  fur 
some  time  labored  as  a  home  missionary  in  Chester  in 
Meigs  County,  in  the  southeastern  part  of  that  State.  On 
April  I,  1847,  he  married  Mrs.  Lucy  Wolcott  Paine,  of 
Connecticut. 

He  was  soon  obliged  to  give  up  regular  preaching  on 
account  of  a  disease  of  the  throat,  and  removed  about 
twelve  miles  to  the  northeast,  to  Coolville,  in  Athens  County, 
where  he  prepared  young  men  for  College  and  preached 
occasionally. 

In  1856  he  bought  a  large  farm  in  Lancaster,  Keokuk 
County,  southeastern  Iowa,  where  he  remained  until  his 
sudden  death,  from  paralysis,  on  December  2.  1866,  in  his 
56th  year. 

His  only  child  (by  his  second  marriage)  died  in  infancy. 

James  Harrison,  son  of  John  and  Jemima  (Jenkins) 
Harrison,  of  Greenville,  in  northwestern  South  Carolina, 
was  born  on  December  26,  1813,  and  entered  Yale  at  the 
opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
from  the  Medical  College  of  South  Carolina,  at  Charleston, 
in  the  spring  of  1840. 

He  settled  in  Greenville,  and  was  married  to  a  lady  of  the 
vicinity  on  June  27,  1843. 


266  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  practice  of  medicine  was  successful,  but  he  was 
obliged  to  retire  by  the  failure  of  his  health  in  1846,  and 
thenceforth  devoted  himself  to  agriculture. 

He  died  on  September  5,  1871,  in  his  58th  year.  He  had 
a  family  of  thirteen  children. 

Arthur  Moseley  Hopkins,  a  son  of  Arthur  Francis  and 
Pamelia  (Moseley)  Hopkins,  was  born  in  Liberty,  Bed- 
ford County,  Virginia,  on  July  15,  1816,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1833.  In  his  infancy  his  father  removed  to  Huntsville, 
Alabama,  where  he  became  an  eminent  lawyer,  and  in  1836 
a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

He  married,  on  July  19,  1837,  Eliza  Pamelia,  the  young- 
est child  of  ex-Governor  Thomas  and  Pamelia  (Thompson) 
Bibb,  of  Huntsville. 

He  studied  law,  and  practiced  for  about  eighteen  months. 
On  the  death  of  his  father-in-law,  in  1839,  he  was  obliged 
to  remove  to  Louisiana,  as  trustee  of  the  Bibb  estate.  In 
1849  he  settled  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  cotton  factorage  business ;  and  in  1856  he  removed 
to  New  Orleans,  where  he  continued  in  the  same  business 
as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Powell  &  Hopkins. 

In  1862  he  went  to  Europe  for  his  health,  and  he 
remained  abroad  until  his  death  in  Manchester,  England,  on 
April  4,  1865,  i^  his  49th  year.  His  widow  died  in  Bir- 
mingham, Alabama,  on  January  18,  1899,  ^^  ^^^  78th  year. 

Their  children  were  four  daughters  and  nine  sons. 

Jacob  Thompson  Hotchkiss,  the  only  child  of  Hezekiah 
and  Elizabeth  Hotchkiss,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  in 
August,  1816,  and  was  named  for  his  maternal  grandfather. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  taught  an  academy  in 
Canandaigua,  New  York.  He  then  entered  the  Yale  Medi- 
cal School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1842. 

He  resided  in  New  Haven,  engaged  in  successful  prac- 
tice, until  his  death,  after  an  illness  of  two  weeks  from 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 836  267 

fever,  on  August  22,    1850,  at  the  age  of   34.     He   was 
unmarried. 

Sylvester  Judd,  Junior,  second  son  of  Sylvester  and 
Apphia  (Hall)  Judd,  of  Westhampton,  Massachusetts,  and 
a  great-grandson  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Judd  (Yale  1741), 
was  born  on  July  23,  181 3.  The  family  removed  to  North- 
ampton in  1822.  He  united  with  the  Congregational 
Church  in  1831,  and  entered  College  with  the  intention  of 
becoming  a  minister.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in 
1840. 

On  graduation  he  took  charge  of  an  academy  in  Temple- 
ton;  but  unfortunately  found  serious  difficulties  existing 
there  between  the  Orthodox  and  Unitarian  Societies.  The 
academy  was  under  Orthodox  control,  but  he  found  him- 
self distinctly  in  growing  sympathy  with  the  Unitarian 
belief.  He  felt  obliged  to  resign  his  situation  in  the  spring 
of  1837,  and  in  the  fall  he  entered  the  Harvard  Divinity 
School. 

On  finishing  his  course  there  in  July,  1840,  he  went  at 
once  to  Augusta,  Maine,  to  fill  an  engagement  to  supply  the 
pulpit  of  the  Unitarian  Church  for  six  wrecks;  and  before 
this  engagement  had  expired,  he  had  accepted  a  unanimous 
call  to  the  pastorate. 

He  was  ordained  on  October  i,  and  on  August  31,  1841, 
he  was  married  to  Jane  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
Reuel  Williams,  of  Augusta,  then  United  States  Senator 
from  Maine,  and  of  Sarah  Lowell  (Cony)  Williams. 

During  the  twelve  years  that  follow^ed  he  was  devoted  to 
his  parish,  but  also  found  time  for  the  preparation  and  pub- 
lication of  three  notable  volumes,  two  prose  idylls  and  a 
poem,  all  designed  to  advocate  the  spread  of  his  ideal  of 
Liberal  Christianity.  The  first  and  most  successful  of 
these,  Margaret,  retains  a  place  in  the  literary  development 
of  New  England.  He  also  became  known,  outside  the 
bounds  of  his  neighborhood  and  of  his  denominational  fel- 


268  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

lowship,  as  an  inspiring  lecturer  on  moral  reforms,  espe- 
cially peace  and  temperance.  His  piety  and  deep  religious 
feeling  colored  all  his  work. 

His  nervous  energy  was  undermined  by  his  intense 
earnestness,  and  a  certain  frailty  of  constitution  was  con- 
tinually apparent.  On  January  3,  1853,  he  was  exposed  to 
a  severe  chill,  under  which  he  sank  rapidly  until  his  death, 
at  his  home,  on  the  26th  of  the  same  month,  aged  39j^  years. 
A  volume   on   his   Life   and   Character   was  published   in 

1854. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  their  three  children. 

John  Griffith  Martin,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Griffith 
Martin,  of  Paris,  Kentucky,  was  born  on  January  10,  181 7, 
and  entered  Yale  after  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

He  read  law  at  home  for  a  year  after  graduation,  and 
then  spent  a  year  in  the  Law  Department  of  Transylvania 
University,  in  Lexington,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  in  1838. 

He  then  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Paris, 
and  soon  entered  into  partnership  with  Garrett  Davis,  after- 
wards a  Member  of  Congress  and  United  States  Senator. 

On  June  2.^,  1839,  he  married  a  daughter  of  Mr.  A.  Spear. 

A  few  years  later  his  health  failed.  In  the  spring  of 
1846  he  made  a  voyage  to  Europe  without  benefit.  He  died 
in  the  house  in  which  he  was  born,  on  August  27,  1847,  in 
his  31st  year.     His  wife  survived  him. 

Frederick  Davis  Mills,  son  of  Captain  Frederick  Mills, 
a  native  of  Stockholm,  Sweden,  and  of  Susan  Grant  (Davis) 
Mills,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  in  New  Haven  on 
May  19,  1817.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1835,  and 
remained  with  them  until  May,  1834,  when  he  left  to  teach 
school,  joining  the  next  Class  in  the  following  year. 

He  studied  law,  in  part  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  in 
1841  or  1842  began  practice  in  Burlington,  Iowa,  where  he 
won  a  good  reputation. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 836  269 

In  March,  1847,  he  was  persuaded  to  accept  a  Major's 
commission  in  the  United  States  army,  and  serve  in  the 
Mexican  War. 

He  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Churubusco,  on  August  20, 
1847,  and  with  a  body  of  private  soldiers  gave  chase  to  the 
retreating  Mexicans,  but  was  made  prisoner  and  killed  the 
same  evening. 

He  was  never  married. 

Samuel  Moseley,  son  of  Chauncey  and  Harriet  (Bing- 
ham) Moseley,  of  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
April  21,  1809.     A  nephew  was  graduated  here  in  1874. 

After  graduation  he  studied  theology  for  three  years  in 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
New  Haven  West  Association  on  August  7,  1838. 

He  supplied  for  a  year  or  more  a  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Ticonderoga,  New  York,  but  as  the  climate  disagreed  with 
his  health  he  returned  to  Connecticut,  and  preached  succes- 
sively in  Middle  Haddam,  a  parish  of  Chatham,  and  in  Bur- 
lington. He  declined  a  call  from  the  latter  place,  on 
account  of  his  health,  and  associated  himself  with  his 
brother,  David  B.  Moseley,  in  the  establishment  of  the 
Religions  Herald,  a  weekly  paper  in  Hartford,  in  Fe])ruary, 
1843.     He  also  preached  occasionally. 

He  died  in  Hartford,  of  consumption,  on  December  9. 
1845,  in  his  37th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Charles  Edward  Murdock,  son  of  Peter  and  Bathslicba 
Murdock,  was  born  in  that  part  of  Saybrook,  Connecticut, 
which  is  now  Westbrook,  in  November,  1809,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1831.  In  February,  1833,  he  left  College,  returning 
the  next  fall  to  the  next  Class. 

He  studied  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School  for  two  years,  and 
was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Association 
on  August  7,  1S38. 

He  then  went  as  a  home  missionary  to  a  small  cinirch 
in    Round    Prairie,    Shelby    County,    Illinois,    having   been 


270  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

ordained  on  November  14.  He  left  this  church  in  the  fall 
of  1840  for  another  in  the  village  of  Hillsgrove,  McDonough 
County. 

In  June,  1841,  he  returned  to  Connecticut,  and  on  June 
29,  1842,  was  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Hamburg  Society,  in  Lyme,  where  he  died  on 
December  15,  1843,  in  his  35th  year. 

He  married  Lucy  Rice,  of  Meriden,  who  survived  him. 
They  had  no  children. 

Daniel  Bigelow  Parkhurst^  son  of  Dr.  William  and 
Hannah  Parkhurst,  of  Petersham,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
on  February  20,  181 8,  and  was  named  for  his  maternal 
grandfather.  He  spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  course 
in  Amherst  College. 

He  taught  for  one  year  after  graduation,  and  entered  the 
Harvard  Divinity  School.  On  completing  his  studies  there 
in  July,  1840,  he  went  to  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  for 
the  benefit  of  his  health,  and  was  ordained  there  to  the  min- 
istry on  December  6,  1840. 

He  returned  in  March,  1841,  and  in  accordance  with  an 
agreement  already  made  proceeded  to  preach  as  a  candidate 
to  the  First  (Unitarian)  Congregational  Society  in  Deerfield. 

He  was  installed  there  on  July  21,  but  after  preaching 
for  five  Sundays  was  prostrated  by  illness  and  went  to  his 
father's  house  for  rest. 

He  returned  and  preached  for  half  the  day  on  October  3, 
and  soon  after  went  to  Keene,  New  Hampshire,  for  a  slight 
surgical  operation;  but  pulmonary  consumption  set  in  with 
renewed  force,  and  after  a  long  decline  he  died  in  Keene 
on  February  16,  1842,  at  the  age  of  24.  He  was  buried  in 
Deerfield. 

He  was  never  married. 

Henry  Kirk  Preston,  son  of  the  Rev.  Willard  Preston 
(Brown  Univ.  1806)  and  Lucy  Maria  (Baker)  Preston,  was 
born  in  Northbridge,  Massachusetts,  on  January  30,  1814. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1836  27  1 

In  his  infancy  his  father  became  a  pastor  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  and  was  next  preacher  (1821-25)  and  Presi- 
dent (1825-26)  of  the  University  of  Vermont  in  BurHng^ton. 
In  1829  he  took  a  pastorate  in  Savannah,  Georgia.  The  son 
came  to  Yale  in  1833. 

After  graduation  he  taught  school  in  Savannah  for  a  feu- 
years,  and  then  studied  law.  He  practiced  his  profession 
until  his  death,  in  Savannah,  on  October  21,  1854,  in  his 
41st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  Prindle,  the  second  son  of  Elijah  and  Sallv 
(Ward)  Prindle,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on  November 
6,  1810,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

His  family  were  communicants  in  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  at  graduation  he  entered  the  General  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  New  York  City,  where  he  remained  three  years. 

On  July  3,  1839,  he  received  Deacon's  orders  from 
Bishop  Brownell  in  New  Haven,  and  soon  left  for  the  work 
of  a  missionary  in  the  West.  He  was  stationed  at  Terre 
Haute,  Indiana,  and  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  but  while  on 
a  visit  at  home  was  taken  seriously  ill,  and  after  eleven  days' 
illness  died  on  November  18,  1841,  at  the  age  of  31.  He 
was  unmarried. 

William  Sherman  Rowland,  the  youngest  child  of  the 
Rev.  Henry  Augustus  Rowland  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1785) 
and  Frances  (Bliss)  Rowland,  of  Windsor.  Connecticut,  and 
a  grandson  of  the  Rev.  David  Sherman  Rowland  (Yale 
1743)  and  of  Judge  Moses  Bliss  (Yale  1755),  was  born  on 
October  23,  1817,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of 
Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  law,  and  settled  in  New  York  City,  at  the  same 
time  giving  much  attention  to  botany  and  other  more  general 
studies. 

In  consequence  of  severe  professional  labor,  his  health 
failed,  and  his  mind  became  to  some  extent  disordered.     He 


272  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

sought  relief  by  a  visit  to  Florida  for  botanical  excursions. 
In  April,  1856,  he  returned  without  much  benefit,  and  in  a 
paroxysm  of  his  malady  took  his  own  life,  in  New  York 
City,  on  May  5,  in  his  39th  year. 

Nelson  Wheeler,  originally  Lord  Nelson  Wheeler,  son 
of  Paul  and  Phebe  (Hill)  Wheeler,  of  (South)  Royalston, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  on  October  24,  1813.  His  father 
died  in  1826. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  New  Haven  Hopkins 
Grammar  School,  and  in  Townshend,  Vermont;  and  then 
spent  some  time  in  the  study  of  Hebrew  in  the  Newton 
Theological  Seminary,  though  not  expecting  to  enter  the 
ministry. 

On  April  24,  1839,  he  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  the 
Hon.  Rufus  and  Sally  (Davis)  Bullock,  of  Royalston,  and 
sister  of  Alexander  Hamilton  Bullock,  afterwards  Governor 
of  the  State. 

For  the  following  year  he  taught  in  Plainfield,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  then  became  Principal  of  the  Worcester  (Massa- 
chusetts) Manual  Labor  High  School,  which  was  main- 
tained by  the  Baptist  denomination.  By  excessive  labor  in 
superintending  this  institution  he  contracted  the  pulmonary 
disease  which  finally  ended  his  life. 

In  1847  ^6  was  made  Principal  of  the  Worcester  High 
School,  and  so  continued  until  appointed  in  1853  Professor 
of  Greek  in  Brown  University. 

He  accepted  this  position,  but  in  1854  was  attacked  with 
hemorrhage  of  the  lungs.  After  a  brief  trip  to  the  South, 
he  returned  to  his  birthplace  to  await  the  end,  and  there 
died  on  August  25,  1855,  in  his  42d  year. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  two  sons,  another  having 
died  in  infancy.  The  youngest  son  was  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1872  in  Yale,  but  was  graduated  at  Brown 
University. 


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Lucius  Harrison  Woodruff,  elder  son  of  James  and 
Lucretia  (Catlin)  Woodruff,  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  November  30,  181 3,  but  spent  his  childhood  and 
youth  in  Greensboro,  Georgia.  He  entered  Yale  in  1829, 
but  retired  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year,  by  reason  of 
delicate  health.  He  joined  the  Class  of  1835  in  their  Sopho- 
more year,  but  was  again  obliged  to  leave,  and  return  a  year 
later  to  this  Class. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale 
Divinity  School,  but  was  then  obliged  by  ill-health  to  with- 
draw. After  brief  experience  in  teaching  elsewhere,  he 
became  in  1841  an  instructor  in  the  American  Asylum  for 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  in  Hartford,  where  he  remained  for 
ten  years. 

He  died  in  Hartford  on  May  20,  1852,  aged  38^/2  years. 

He  married,  on  March  2^,  1844,  Julia  Maria  Southmayd, 
of  Middletown,  who  survived  him,  and  next  married  Samuel 
S.  Ward,  of  Hartford.  She  died  in  October,  1894,  in  her 
85th  year. 

James  McAlpin  Wray  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  on 
November  i,  1817. 

He  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  University  in 
June,  1837,  and  remained  for  one  year. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  New  Orleans,  and  died  there  on 
April  8,  1850,  in  his  33d  year. 

Henry  Wright,  son  of  Dr.  Asahel  Wright  (Williams 
Coll.  1803)  and  Frances  (Bascom)  Wright,  of  Chester, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  on  August  7,  1811.  His  father 
died  in  1830. 

Shortly  after  graduation  he  took  charge  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Mathematics,  Natural  Philosophy  and  Astronomy 
in  East  Tennessee  College,  at  Knoxville,  but  left  there  in 

1839- 

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274  BIOGRAPHICAL  .NOTICES 

He  then  studied  law,  and  began  practice  in  Iowa  City, 
Iowa,  but  soon  became  insane.  After  a  few  months  he 
recovered  his  reason,  and  removed  to  Lexington,  Henderson 
County,  Tennessee,  where  he  was  successful  in  his  profes- 
sion. From  1854  he  acted  as  Deputy  for  the  County  Clerk, 
and  in  signing  the  Clerk's  name  omitted  sometimes  to  add 
his  own  name  as  Deputy.  He  was  arrested  on  a  (ground- 
less) charge  of  forgery,  and  his  insanity  returned.  Before 
his  case  came  up  in  the  court,  he  died  in  the  Insane  Asylum 
in  Nashville,  on  June  13,  1859,  i"  his  48th  year. 


CLASS  OF    1837 

Joseph  Conkling  Albertson  was  born  in  Southold, 
Long  Island,  on  February  16,  1817. 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  City,  and  began  practice 
there  in  1840.  In  1845  he  was  one  of  the  Assistant  Alder- 
men of  the  city,  and  in  1846  a  Representative  in  the  State 
Legislature.  In  1847  he  became  a  Justice  in  one  of  the 
Ward  Courts,  but  was  superseded  under  the  new  Constitu- 
tion, which  went  into  operation  in  that  year.  For  the  next 
two  years  he  was  engaged  in  farming  in  Southold. 

In  1850  he  resumed  practice  in  New  York,  and  continued 
there  until  the  winter  of  1853-54,  when  he  went  to  San 
Francisco,  to  pursue  the  law.  He  died  in  a  hospital  in  that 
city,  the  victim  of  intemperance,  on  December  8,  1858,  in 
his  42d  year. 

He  married  in  1846,  but  survived  his  wife;  his  only 
child  died  in  infancy. 

William  Barlow  Baldwin,  son  of  William  and  Ann 
(Perrin)  Baldwin,  of  New  Haven,  and  a  brother  of  Michael 
Baldwin  (Yale  1833),  was  born  on  October  5,  1817. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  a  tutor  in  a 
family  near  Natchez,  Mississippi. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 837  275 

He  then  entered  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  and 
as  soon  as  he  obtained  a  license  to  preach  he  returned  to 
Mississippi,  and  for  six  months  supplied  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Pine  Ridge,  seven  miles  northeast  of  Natchez. 
His  voice  then  failed  him,  and  by  the  advice  of  friends  he 
abandoned  the  hope  of  pursuing  the  ministry,  and  attended 
two  courses  of  medical  lectures  in  New  Orleans,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1844. 

He  settled  on  a  plantation  in  Woodville,  about  thirty  miles 
south  of  Natchez,  where  he  was  eminently  successful  in  his 
profession  and  universally  esteemed. 

During  the  prevalence  of  an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever,  he 
overtaxed  himself,  and  his  death  followed  in  consequence,  in 
Woodville,  on  November  15,  1853,  in  his  37th  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Thomas  Allen  Barnard,  son  of  Captain  Frederic  and 
Margaret  (Allen)  Barnard,  of  Nantucket,  Massachusetts, 
was  born  on  October  15,  1816.  His  parents  removed  to 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  in  his  infancy.  Three  brothers 
were  graduated  here,  in  1841,  1847,  and  1848,  respectively. 

He  studied  law  in  Poughkeepsie,  where  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1839.  In  October,  1840,  he  removed  to  Macon, 
Georgia,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  his  death, 
on  August  17,  1842,  in  his  26th  year.  He  was  never 
married. 

JoAB  Brace,  Junior,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev.  Joab 
Brace  (Yale  1804),  of  Newington,  then  a  parish  in  Weth- 
ersfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  Tune  16,  1814.  He  was 
very  feeble  from  infancy,  on  account  of  enlargement  of  the 
spleen,  and  also  suffered  from  lameness  induced  by  paralysis. 

After  graduation  he  resided  in  the  family  of  his  brother- 
in-law,  the  Rev.  John  Todd  (Yale  1822).  in  Philadelphia 
until  1841,  and  later  in  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts.  Meantime 
he  occupied  himself  in  teaching  a  small  select  school,   in 


276  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

various  editorial  and  other  literary  labors,  and  in  theological 
study. 

He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Berkshire  Association 
in  the  fall  of  1844,  and  soon  after  was  ordained  and  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Lanesboro,  the 
town  next  north  of  Pittsfield. 

In  May,  1845,  he  married  Elizabeth  J.  Watson,  of 
Pittsfield. 

In  July,  1845,  he  was  seized  with  a  severe  illness,  but 
recovered  sufficiently  to  ride  to  Pittsfield,  where  he  was 
taken  ill  again,  and  died,  after  eight  weeks  of  extreme 
suffering,  on  September  22,  in  his  32d  year. 

Charles  Buck,  third  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Bel- 
den)  Buck,  of  Wethersfield  and  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and 
grandson  of  Colonel  Ezekiel  Porter  Belden  (Yale  1775), 
was  born  in  Hartford  on  December  26,  1817. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  civil  engineer,  and  was 
employed  in  various  localities,  especially  in  Maine  and 
Ohio.  He  was  then  for  a  short  time  a  broker  in  New  York 
City,  but  in  1844  returned  to  Hartford,  where  he  was 
employed  as  an  agent  of  the  New  Haven  and  Hartford 
Railroad  Company. 

In  February,  1845,  he  took  a  severe  cold,  which  resulted 
in  pulmonary  consumption,  from  which  his  death  followed, 
in  Hartford,  on  August  28,  in  his  28th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 

William  Gaston  Caperton,  a  son  of  the  Hon.  Hugh 
Caperton,  who  was  a  Representative  in  Congress  from  181 3 
to  1815,  was  born  in  Union,  Monroe  County,  (West)  Vir- 
ginia, on  February  14,  181 5,  and  entered  Yale  from  Ohio 
University,  at  Athens,  in  1836.  A  brother  was  graduated 
here  in  1832. 

He  studied  law  in  Staunton,  Virginia,  during  the  year 
after  graduation,  and  practiced  the  profession  in  Monroe 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1837  277 

and  adjacent  counties  until  the  failure  of  his  health  in  1844, 
when  he  retired  to  his  farm  in  Monroe  County. 

He  died  very  suddenly  at  his  home,  from  disease  of  the 
heart,  on  June  17,  1852,  in  his  38th  year. 

He  married,  on  June  29,  1843,  Harriet  B.  Alexander,  of 
Monroe  County,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.  She  survived  him  with  two  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

Philip  Allen  Davenport  was  born  in  New  Rochelle, 
Westchester  County,  New  York,  on  November  23,  181 7. 

After  graduation  he  studied  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr. 
Alexander  H.  Stevens  ( V^ale  1807),  of  New  York,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  1841.  He  was  then  connected  for  a  year 
with  the  hospital  service  in  the  city. 

In  1842  he  began  practice  in  New  Rochelle,  but  the 
severe  climate  led  him  in  the  fall  of  1844  to  seek  a  warmer 
latitude  for  his  delicate  lungs.  After  a  winter  in  Georgia 
and  Florida,  he  settled  in  1845  in  Columbia,  about  fifty  miles 
west  of  Galveston,  Texas,  where  he  followed  his  profession 
for  some  years.  He  there  married  Catharine  Helen  Sayre, 
of  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  who  was  visiting  an  uncle  in 
Columbia. 

Later,  he  gave  up  practice  and  bought  a  large  tract  of 
land  near  Columbia,  where  he  devoted  himself  chiefly,  and 
with  success,  to  raising  cattle  and  to  agricultural  pursuits. 

In  the  winter  of  1856-57  his  health  broke  down,  and  in 
the  following  spring  he  came  North  to  recruit.  He  reached 
New  Rochelle,  exhausted  by  disease  and  the  fatigue  of  the 
journey,  and  died  there,  on  June  2,  in  his  40th  year. 

His  children  were  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

William  Smith  Deming,  the  only  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Smith)  Deming,  of  Newington  Parish,  in  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  November  27,  1814. 


27S  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  taught  after  graduation  in  Prospect  Hill,  Fairfax 
County,  Virginia.  He  returned  to  his  native  place  in  feeble 
health  in  August,  1839,  and  died  there  on  September  14,  in 
his  25th  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

William  Pierce  Eaton,  son  of  Joseph  and  Margaret 
(Wright)  Eaton,  was  born  in  Plainfield,  Connecticut,  on 
April  23,  181 7.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  the  island  of 
St.  Christopher,  in  the  British  West  Indies. 

He  taught  in  Lebanon  for  about  two  years  (1838-40). 

In  April,  1843,  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard 
University,  Avhere  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1844. 

In  1845  he  married  Sarah  F.  Brazer,  of  Groton,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  began  practice  in  Greensboro,  Alabama;  but 
after  two  years  he  abandoned  his  profession,  to  resume 
teaching,  in  which  he  was  highly  successful. 

In  185 1  he  removed  to  Harrison  County,  Texas,  where  he 
continued  teaching  until  1854,  when  he  returned  to  the 
North,  to  be  nearer  his  aged  father. 

He  was  the  Principal  of  the  Union  School  in  Lockport, 
New  York,  from  the  fall  of  1854  to  his  death  there,  from 
bilious  pneumonia,  on  March  17,  1857,  in  his  40th  year.  He 
was  buried  in  his  native  town. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  son. 

John  Gould  Hull,  son  of  Dr.  Nimrod  and  Amy  (Lewis) 
Hull,  of  that  part  of  Waterbury  now  included  in  Naugatuck, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  March  16,  1814.  His  father  died 
in  1824.  His  College  course  was  much  interrupted  by  ill 
health. 

After  graduation  he  engaged  in  teaching  and  in  the  study 
of  medicine  in  \\'oodbury.  In  1839  he  began  the  study  of 
theology  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Seminary  in  Alex- 
andria, Virginia,  and  on  July  5,  1840,  he  was  admitted  to 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 837  279 

Deacon's    orders    by    Bishop    Brownell,    in    Glastonbury. 
Connecticut. 

His  feeble  health  interfered,  however,  with  his  plans. 
After  a  winter  spent  in  the  West  Indies,  he  officiated  in  sev- 
eral places  in  Virginia,  but  was  soon  compelled  to  return 
to  Naugatuck,  where  he  died  on  March  i,  1844,  at  the  age 
of  30. 

Addison  Lyman  Hunt,  son  of  William  and  Lora 
(Wright)  Hunt,  of  Columbia,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
March  18,  1813. 

He  taught  for  some  time  on  Long  Island,  and  afterwards 
became  a  dentist  in  Alabama,  where  he  died  in  Cambridge, 
Dallas  County,  on  August  8,  1845,  in  his  33d  year. 

Robert  Underwood  Hyatt,  a  native  of  Washington, 
District  of  Columbia,  was  a  member  of  the  Class  from  the 
beginning  of  Sophomore  year  to  the  end  of  the  first  term 
of  Senior  year,  and  was  admitted  to  a  degree  in  1839. 

After  studying  law  for  a  year  with  Richard  S.  Coxe,  of 
Washington,  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity in  November,  1838,  and  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1840. 

He  began  practice  in  Washington,  but  soon  removed  to 
St.  Francisville,  Louisiana,  where  he  died  on  November  i. 
1843,  from  yellow  fever,  contracted  from  watching  with  a 
friend,  at  the  age  of  25. 

George  Beale  Morse  was  born  in  1809  or  1810.  and 
entered  College  from  Oxford,  Connecticut. 

He  studied  law,  and  engaged  in  practice  in  Columbus, 
Mississippi.  He  went  to  California  after  the  discovery  of 
gold,  and  thence  to  Australia,  where  he  also  engaged  in 
mining. 

He  finally  settled  in  Chicago,  and  died  in  1883. 


28o  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Christopher  Musgrave  was  born  in  Antigua,  West 
Indies,  on  January  8,  iSi8.  His  family  resided  in  New 
Haven  during  his  College  course. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  for  a  year  after  graduation 
and  then  went  to  England,  with  the  purpose  of  studying 
law  in  London. 

Nothing  more  is  known  of  him. 

John  Augustus  Noyes  was  born  in  Modena.  a  village  in 
Plattekill,  Ulster  County,  New  York,  on  August  9.  1817. 
A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1840. 

He  studied  law,  and  began  practice  in  his  native  town 
in  1840,  uniting  the  pursuit  of  agriculture  with  his  profes- 
sion, until  his  death  there  on  January  10,  1843,  in  his  26th 
year. 

CoDDiNGTON  BiLLiNGS  Palmer,  third  son  of  Denison  and 
Hannah  (Slack)  Palmer,  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  February  8,  1810. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  an  Academy  in  Southold, 
Long  Island.  He  married,  in  February,  1839,  and  removed 
during  the  ensuing  summer  to  Belvidere,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  studied  law  with  Mr.  Southard. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1841,  and  for  a  few  years 
practiced  in  Jersey  City.  In  1844  he  removed  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  was  partly  employed  in  work  for  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Society,  his  sympathies  having  long  been  deeply 
enlisted  for  that  movement.  Not  succeeding  in  his  profes- 
sion as  he  hoped,  and  his  wife's  health  suffering  in  the  city, 
he  went  in  1847  to  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  where  he 
taught  in  the  Academy. 

In  1850  he  went  to  California,  and  in  1852  sent  word  to 
his  family  that  he  was  about  to  return.  Nothing  was  ever 
heard  of  him  again,  except  that  the  death  of  a  Mr.  Palmer 
in  April  of  that  year  was  reported  in  the  California  papers. 

He  left  a  son,  his  only  child. 


VALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1837  281 

Daniel  Powers  was  born  in  Warren,  then  called  West- 
ern, Worcester  County,  Massachusetts,  on  May  21,  181 5, 
the  son  of  Chester  and  Eunice  (Haskell)  Powers. 

He  taught  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  for  about  two  years  after 
graduation,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  New  Haven  in  the 
study  of  German.  In  the  fall  of  1840  he  entered  on  a 
tutorship'  in  the  College,  but  was  obliged  to  resign  from 
ill  health  in  the  fall  of  1842. 

He  spent  the  following  winter  in  Franklin,  Louisiana,  and 
after  a  summer  at  the  North,  resorted  to  a  southern  climate 
for  another  winter.  In  the  spring  of  1844  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  Franklin,  but  was  soon  attacked  with  hem- 
orrhage of  the  lungs,  and  returned  to  end  his  days  among 
friends. 

He  died  in  his  native  place  on  March  17,  1845,  in  his  30th 
year.     He  was  never  married. 

Abel  Bellows  Robeson,  the  only  son  of  Colonel  Jonas 
and  Susan  (Bellows)  Robeson,  of  Fitzwilliam,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  born  on  April  10,  1817.  His  father  died  in  1820. 
and  his  mother  returned  to  Walpole,  her  native  town. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  with 
Dr.  Thomas  Wells,  who  had  married  his  half-sister,  for  one 
year,  and  continued  his  studies  in  Boston,  Woodstock, 
Vermont,  and  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts. 

He  then  established  himself  in  practice  in  New  York 
City,  and  on  October  5,  1841,  married  Susan,  third  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathaniel  W.  Taylor  (Yale  1807),  of  New 
Haven. 

His  professional  career  engrossed  him  fully,  until  his 
death  in  New  Y^ork,  after  a  brief  illness,  of  pulmonary 
congestion,  on  March  22,  1853,  in  his  36th  year.  He  was 
buried  in  Walpole. 

His  widow  died,  of  consumption,  on  March  17,  1856,  at 
her  father's  house  in  New  Haven,  in  her  40th  year. 


2S2  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Their  children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  survived  them. 
One  son  was  for  a  time  a  member  of  the  College  Class  of 
1869. 

George  Schenck,  sixth  son  of  Abram  H.  and  Sarah 
(Wilkie)  Schenck,  of  the  village  of  Matteawan,  in  Fishkill, 
Duchess  County,  New  York,  was  born  on  January  27,  1816. 
An  accident  in  childhood  left  him  permanently  lame. 

He  studied  theology  for  three  years  in  the  Seminary  of 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  Brunswick,  New- 
Jersey,  and  was  ordained  and  installed  on  December  29, 
1840,  as  pastor  of  the  church  in  Bedminster,  New  Jersey. 
After  the  call  to  Bedminster,  he  had  married,  on  October 
20,  Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  John  Acker,  of  New  Brunswick. 

After  an  acceptable  and  fruitful  service  of  over  eleven 
years,  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis  in  December,  1851, 
and  lingered  until  July  7,  1852,  when  he  died  in  his  37th 
year. 

His  children  were  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  His  widow 
next  married  M.  A.  Howell,  of  New  Brunswick. 

He  was  a  most  useful  minister  and  able  preacher,  of 
indomitable  energy. 

William  Henry  Sheldon  was  born  in  Southampton, 
Massachusetts,  on  February  24,  1816. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  Ravenna,  Ohio, 
and  then  spent  three  years  in  the  Andover  Theological 
Seminary.  The  graduation  exercises  were  held  on  Sep- 
tember I,  1 84 1,  but  he  died  in  Southampton  on  the  7th  of 
the  same  month,  in  his  26th  year. 

AzARiAH  Smith,  Junior,  the  fourth  son  of  Azariah 
and  Zilpah  (Mack)  Smith,  of  Manlius,  Onondaga  County, 
New  York,  was  born  on  February  16,  1817,  and  entered 
Yale  during  the  Freshman  year.  A  brother  was  graduated 
here  in  1844;  David  Mack  (Yale  1823)  was  a  first  cousin. 
He  became  a  Christian  in  his  Sophomore  year,  and  then 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1837  283 

resolved  to  become  a  foreign  missionary.  He  pursued  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  Geneva  Medical  College  in  1837- 
39,  and  spent  the  summer  of  1839  ^"  dispensary  and  hospi- 
tal practice  in  Philadelphia.  He  then  spent  three  years  in 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  besides  completing  his  course  in 
medicine  in  the  Medical  School  and  receiving  the  degree  of 
M.D.  in  January,  1840,  and  attending  a  course  of  lectures  in 
the  Law  School. 

He  was  ordained  at  Manlius  by  the  Presbytery  of  Onon- 
daga on  August  30,  1842,  and  sailed  from  Boston  in 
November  as  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board  to 
Western  Asia. 

On  account  of  his  medical  skill  he  was  for  the  first  three 
years  called  almost  incessantly  from  place  to  place;  but 
in  the  fall  of  1845  he  was  able  to  settle  more  permanently 
in  Erzerum,  Armenia.  Two  years  later  he  was  commis- 
sioned to  Aintab,  in  the  vicinity  of  Aleppo. 

Early  in  1848  his  devoted  and  unremitting  labors,  which 
had  been  crowned  with  signal  success,  were  interrupted 
by  a  brief  visit  to  America,  during  which  he  was  married, 
on  July  6,  to  his  first  cousin,  Corinth  Sarah,  daughter  of 
William  and  Abigail  (Mack)  Elder,  of  Cortland,  New- 
York. 

He  died  in  Aintab,  of  lung  fever,  after  two  weeks'  illness, 
on  June  3,  185 1,  in  his  35th  year. 

His  wife  died  in  Waukesha,  Wisconsin,  on  September  8, 
1888,  in  her  69th  year.     Their  two  children  died  in  infancy. 

Frank  [A.]  South  all,  of  Enfield,  Halifax  County, 
North  Carolina,  entered  Yale  from.  Princeton  College 
(where  he  had  studied  for  a  year)  in  1836. 

He  studied  law  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  began  prac- 
tice there  with  good  prospects.  He  was  soon,  however,  dis- 
carded by  a  lady  to  whom  he  was  deeply  attached,  and  lost 
all  ambition  and  self-respect.  He  became  a  miserable 
wanderer,  dying  in  Florida,  in  July,  1853.  at  the  age  of  3;. 


2^4  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

William  Alexander  Sparks  was  born  in  Society  Hill, 
South  Carolina,  on  October  4,  181 7,  and  entered  Yale  from 
Columbian  College,  at  Washington,  in  1834. 

He  pursued  the  study  of  medicine  for  two  years  in  the 
Medical  College  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  in  Charles- 
ton, and  subsequently  in  Paris. 

He  married,  on  May  31,  1842,  Alicia,  youngest  daughter 
of  Colonel  John  and  Mary  (Burroughs)  Middleton,  of 
Charleston  and  Crowfield. 

He  was  appointed  Consul  at  Venice  by  President  Polk  in 
1845,  ^"<i  ^i^*^  there,  of  Asiatic  cholera,  on  August  19,  1849, 
in  his  32d  year.  His  body  was  brought  to  Society  Hill  for 
burial.     He  left  one  daughter. 

His  widow  married,  in  1853,  Major,  afterwards  Briga- 
dier-General Roswell  S.  Ripley,  and  died  in  Flat  Rock, 
North  Carolina,  in  June,  1898,  in  her  75th  year. 

Seth  Tryon  Wilbur,  son  of  William  Wilbur,  of  Genoa, 
Cayuga  County,  New  York,  was  born  on  October  21,  1814, 
and  entered  Yale  from  Hamilton  College  at  the  opening  of 
Junior  year. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Cayuga,  but  in  1838  felt 
impelled  to  abandon  that  calling  for  the  ministry.  Before 
he  had  been  able  to  begin  his  new  course  of  study,  he  died 
of  consumption,  in  New  York  City,  at  the  house  of  a 
brother,  an  editor  of  the  New-York  Evangelist,  on  Decem- 
ber 2,  1838,  in  his  25th  year. 


CLASS  OF    1838 

John  McNaughton  Adams,  the  only  son  of  Deacon 
John  F,  and  Betsey  (McNaughton)  Adams,  of  Poultney, 
Vermont,  was  born  on  April  15,  1814.  The  family  removed 
to  Lyme,  Huron  County,  Ohio,  in  1820. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Mayville, 
Chautauqua  County,  New  York. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 838  285 

In  the  fall  of  1840  he  became  a  tutor  in  Mr.  James  Row- 
an's family,  in  Natchez,  Mississippi,  and  at  his  plantation, 
about  twelve  miles  distant.  He  spent  five  years  in  this 
situation,  at  the  same  time  studying  law.  He  then  went  to 
Bayou  Sara,  Louisiana,  for  similar  occupation ;  but  was 
soon  taken  ill  with  inflammatory  rheumatism,  and  returned 
to  Mr.  Rowan's  house  in  Natchez,  where  he  died  in  1846, 
at  the  age  of  32.     He  was  never  married. 

Francis  Bacon,  the  youngest  son  of  the  Hon.  Asa 
Bacon  (Yale  1793),  of  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  January  6,  1819. 

Having  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Origen  S.  Seymour 
(Yale  1824),  in  Litchfield,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1840;  and  began  practice  in  Litchfield.  He  married,  on 
July  7,  1843,  Elizabeth  Sheldon,  daughter  of  Captain  Ruloff 
and  Lucinda  (Howe)  Dutcher,  of  Canaan. 

In  1843  he  removed  to  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  and 
formed  a  law-partnership  with  Thaddeus  Stevens  (Dart- 
mouth Coll.  1814),  afterwards  a  distinguished  statesman. 

His  only  surviving  brother  (Yale  1833)  died  abroad  in 
January,  1845,  and  he  felt  obliged  in  consequence  to  return 
(in  July)  to  his  parents,  and  resume  practice  in  Litchfield. 

He  was  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  during  the 
sessions  of  the  State  Legislature  in  1847  and  1848,  and  in 
1847  was  appointed  Major  General  of  the  State  Militia. 
In  the  spring  of  1849  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  State 
Senate,  and  in  the  May  session  showed  remarkable  promise. 

In  these  circumstances,  with  the  brightest  prospects  of 
distinction,  he  was  attacked,  about  the  ist  of  September. 
1849,  with  typhoid  fever,  and  he  died  in  Litchfield  on  the 
i6th  of  that  month,  in  his  31st  year. 

His  only  child  survived  him.  Francis  Bacon  Trow- 
bridge (Yale  1887)  is  a  grandson. 

His  widow  married,  in  1855,  Colonel  Lewis  Carr,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  died  in  New  York  City  on  October  9, 
1867,  in  her  42d  year. 


286  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

George  Washington  Campbell,  son  of  the  Hon.  George 
Washington  Campbell  (Princeton  Coll.  1794),  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  was  born  on  October  i,  1818,  in  St.  Petersburg, 
Russia,  where  his  father,  previously  United  States  Senator 
and  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  Madison,  was  then 
Minister  Resident.  The  family  returned  to  America  in 
1820,  and  the  son  entered  Yale  in  March,  1835. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law,  and  practiced  his  pro- 
fession, at  first  in  Nashville,  and  subsequently  in  St.  Louis. 

The  failing  health  of  his  father  (who  died  in  February, 
1848)  recalled  him  to  Nashville,  and  he  was  thereafter 
chiefly  occupied  with  the  care  of  his  large  estates  in  Ten- 
nessee and  Mississippi. 

In  1852  he  went  to  Europe,  and  through  exposure  in 
crossing  the  Alps  into  Italy  contracted  an  inflammation  of 
the  lungs,  which  resulted  in  permanent  disease.  A  stay  at 
the  mineral  springs  in  the  Pyrenees  led  to  some  improve- 
ment, and  he  started  for  Bordeaux  to  embark  for  home; 
but  died  suddenly  on  the  way,  at  Roquefort,  on  August  6, 
1853,  in  his  35th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Lorenzo  Cary,  son  of  John  Gary,  and  grandson  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Cary  (Yale  1755),  was  born  in  Hillsdale,  Columbia 
County,  New  York,  on  June  18,  1814.  The  family  removed 
in  1830  to  Pulteney,  in  Steuben  County.  The  necessity  of 
earning  his  way  broke  down  his  health  in  Senior  year. 

After  leaving  College  he  taught  in  the  Academy  in  Berlin, 
Connecticut,  going  thence  before  the  close  of  the  year  to 
the  High  School  in  Norwich  Town.  He  married,  on 
August  13,  1839,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Theodore  Ellsworth, 
of  Berlin,  and  widow  of  Matthew  Peck,  of  Berlin,  who  died 
in  1834. 

While  teaching  in  Norwich  he  pursued  theological  studies 
with  the  Rev.  Hiram  P.  Arms  (Yale  1824),  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  London  Association  on  April 
26,  1842. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1838  287 

On  August  14,  1845,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Webster,  Worces- 
ter County,  Massachusetts,  where  he  continued  with  great 
acceptance,  until  dismissed  at  his  own  request  on  June  29 
1852. 

In  the  spring  of  1853  he  removed  to  College  Hill,  Ohio, 
a  suburb  of  Cincinnati,  and  the  residence  of  his  first  cousin, 
Samuel  F.  Cary  (Miami  Univ.  1835),  afterwards  candi- 
date of  the  National  Greenback  Party  for  the  presidency. 

He  was  elected  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages  in  the 
Farmers'  College,  a  ^nanual-labor  institution  in  that  village 
which  his  cousin  had  founded  ;  he  also  served  for  two  years 
as  Stated  Supply  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  which  he  had 
assisted  in  organizing. 

His  wife  died,  after  long  feebleness,  on  December  13, 
1855,  and  he  was  making  arrangements  to  give  up  teaching 
and  devote  himself  to  the  ministry,  when  he  was  seized 
with  a  fever.  While  struggling  under  a  relapse,  an  apo- 
plectic attack  followed,  causing  his  death,  in  College  Hill, 
on  January  24,  1857,  in  his  43d  year. 

His  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  survived  him. 

Almon  David  Corbyn,  the  second  son  of  Joseph  Perrin 
and  Mary,  or  Polly  (Hayward  or  Howard)  Corbin,  of 
Woodstock,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  April  22.  1810.  The 
family  removed  in  181 5  to  Henrietta,  near  Rochester,  New 
York.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1839.  The 
brothers  changed  the  spelling  of  their  family  name  from 
Corbin  to  Corbyn  about  1846. 

After  a  year  spent  as  a  private  tutor  in  Annapolis,  Mary- 
land, he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  March,  1840. 
he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  Kem()er 
College  in  that  city,  and  was  transferred  in  the  following 
August  to  the  professorship  of  Latin  and  Greek.  He  mar- 
ried,  on   October   29,    1840,    Mary    Egerton,    daughter   of 


288  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Daniel  Hough  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1812)  and  Emmeline  E. 
(Robert)  Hough,  of  St.  Louis.  He  was  admitted  to 
Deacon's  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church  by  Bishop  Kemper 
on  July  18,  1841.     (He  was  a  Baptist  by  early  training.) 

In  1844  he  left  the  College  to  take  charge  of  the  new 
parish  of  Christ  Church  in  Boonville,  in  the  center  of  the 
State,  where  he  built  a  church  and  parsonage. 

His  wife  died  in  St.  Louis  on  April  28,  1846,  in  her  24th 
year;  and  he  was  again  married,  on  July  13,  1847,  to  Vir- 
ginia, daughter  of  Dr.  E.  E.  and  Maria  H.  Buckner,  of 
Boonville,  and  a  native  of  Virginia. 

In  January,  1852,  he  removed  to  St.  Paul's  Church  in 
Columbus,  Mississippi ;  but  resigned  in  1853  to  become 
Rector  or  President  of  St.  Andrew's  College,  near  Jackson. 
This  office  he  left  in  the  spring  of  1855,  to  assume  the 
rectorship  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  in  Jackson.  In  the  fol- 
lowing August  the  yellow  fever  visited  the  city,  and  he 
took  the  disease  while  ministering  to  the  sick.  He  began- 
to  work  too  soon,  and  in  a  recurrence  of  the  fever  died, 
on  October  18,  in  his  46th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  three  daughters,  besides  two 
sons  by  his  first  marriage.  A  daughter  by  his  first  mar- 
riage, and  two  sons  by  his  second,  died  in  infancy. 

Albert  Dodd^  of  Hartford,  entered  Yale  from  Trinity 
College  during  Junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law,  and  opened  an  office 
in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  He  subsequently  removed  to 
Bloomington,  Illinois,  where  he  prospered  in  his  profession, 
and  entered  actively  into  political  life. 

In  June,  1844,  on  his  return  from  a  political  meeting,  he 
attempted  to  cross  the  Mackinaw  River,  about  twenty  miles 
from  Bloomington,  while  the  stream  was  swollen  by  a 
freshet.  His  horse  lost  his  footing,  and  he  was  drowned, 
in  his  27th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1838  289 

Elisha  Fitch,  the  fifth  son  of  Captain  James  and  Abigail 
(Fox)  Fitch,  of  Montville,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  June 
22,  1813.     He  was  eminent  in  College  as  a  mathematician. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven,  pursuing  advanced  scientific 
studies,  until  he  accepted,  in  November,  1838,  an  appoint- 
ment as  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  United  States 
Navy. 

He  was  ordered  to  the  Levant,  stationed  at  Pensacola, 
Florida,  and  cruising  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  In  the  fall 
of  1839  yellow  fever  broke  out  in  Pensacola,  and  he  was 
attacked  on  October  7.  He  died  on  October  15,  in  his 
27th  year. 

Seth  Fuller,  the  youngest  child  of  Deacon  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  (Bacon)  Fuller,  of  Newton,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  July  16,  1807.     His  parents  died  in  his  infancy. 

On  graduation  he  became  the  Principal  of  the  Academy 
in  Waterbury,  Connecticut,  and  so  continued,  greatly 
respected,  until  his  last  illness.  He  was  also  a  very  efficient 
Sunday  School  Superintendent.  He  had  hoped  to  be  a 
minister,  but  was  disappointed. 

He  was  attacked  with  typhoid  fever  in  the  fall  of  1843, 
and  while  apparently  recovering,  consumption  set  in.  He 
died  in  Waterbury  on  March  12,  1844,  in  his  38th  year. 

He  married,  in  Hillsboro,  New  Hampshire,  on  June  8, 
1840,  Ruhama  Parker,  who  died  suddenly  in  New  Haven 
on  October  30,  1886,  aged  y^i  years. 

Their  only  child  was  a  daughter,  long  a  teacher  in  New 
Haven. 

David  Elmor  Goodwin,  the  fourth  son  of  Russell  and 
Ruth  (Church)  Goodwin,  of  Winchester,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  April  8,  181 1.  The  family  removed  to  Litchfield 
in  1825,  and  to  Vernon,  Oneida  County,  New  York,  in 
1837.  The  first  two  years  of  his  College  course  were  spent 
in  Amherst  College. 
19 


290  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Theological  Institute  of  Con- 
necticut, at  East  Windsor,  for  two  years,  and  soon  after 
leaving  there  (in  August,  1840)  he  began  to  supply  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Williamsburg,  Hampshire 
County,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  ordained  and  installed 
as  pastor  on  January  13,   1841. 

He  died  there,  after  a  very  brief  illness,  on  May  2,  1842, 
in  his  32d  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Seaborn  Augustus  Jones,  son  of  Thomas  and  Cynthia 
(Bird)  Jones,  of  Burke  County,  Georgia,  was  born  on 
March  17,  18 18.  His  parents  died  in  his  infancy,  and  he 
spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  College  course  in  Franklin 
College,  at  Athens. 

When  he  attained  his  majority  he  purchased  a  large 
plantation  in  his  native  county,  and  devoted  himself  to  his 
responsibilities  as  a  planter.  In  1843  he  was  attacked  with 
a  bronchial  affection,  which  required  him  to  spend  two  years 
abroad. 

On  September  30,  1847,  he  married  Martha  M.  Law,  of 
New  Haven,  a  granddaughter  of  Judge  Richard  Law  (Yale 
1751),  and  daughter  of  Christopher  Law. 

Subsequently  the  bronchial  trouble  increased,  and  ulti- 
mately caused  his  death,  on  April  25,  1856,  in  his  39th  year. 

His  wife  long  survived  him.  His  children  were  two 
daughters  and  two  sons. 

William  Lyon  Law,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  Andrew 
Law  (Yale  1792),  of  Meredith,  Delaware  County,  New 
York,  and  grandson  of  William  Lyon,  of  New  Haven,  was 
born  on  April  8,  18 14,  and  entered  College  at  the  opening 
of  Sophomore  year. 

Early  in  1838  he  was  prostrated  by  hemorrhages  from  the 
lungs,  and  was  obliged  to  return  home  before  Commence- 
ment, though  his  degree  was  granted  in  regular  form. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1838  291 

When  it  was  evident  that  serious  disease  of  the  kings 
existed,  he  went  to  Georgia,  in  October,  1838,  for  the  sake 
of  the  milder  dimate;  but  he  died  at  St.  Mary's,  in  that 
State,  on  October  31,  1839,  in  his  26th  year. 

Charles  James  Lynde,  the  eldest  son  of  Judge  Tilly 
and  Eliza  Lynde,  of  Sherburne,  Chenango  County,  New 
York,  was  born  on  April  7,  1816.  His  father  removed 
about  thirty-five  miles  to  the  westward,  to  Homer,  Cortland 
County,  in  April,  1833,  and  two  sons  entered  Hamilton  Col- 
lege in  1834,  and  'proceeded  to  Yale  a  year  later. 

He  spent  a  part  of  the  year  after  graduation  in  the  Law 
School  of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and 
after  completing  his  studies  at  home  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar.  He  married,  on  August  6,  1839,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Asa  Babcock,  of  Truxton,  near  Homer.  In  June,  1840, 
as  his  father  had  large  property  interests  in  the  West,  he 
settled  in  practice  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin  Territory,  and 
was  joined  by  his  brother  in  the  following  spring. 

In  the  summer  of  1841,  he  was  returning  with  his  wife 
from  a  visit  to  their  relatives,  and  took  passage  on  August 
9  at  Buffalo  on  the  steamboat  Erie  for  Chicago.  A  short 
distance  out  of  port  some  carboys  of  varnish  near  the  fur- 
nace took  fire,  and  the  boat  was  almost  instantly  in  flames. 
Mr.  Lynde  lost  his  life,  but  Mrs.  Lynde  was  saved. 

A  posthumous  child  died  in  infancy.  The  widow  mar- 
ried E.  B.  Wicks,  and  died  while  on  a  visit  in  Brooklyn. 
New  York,  on  May  3,  1882. 

Edward  Ralph  May,  fourth  son  of  Ralph  and  Mary 
(Hall)  May,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May 
10,  1819,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 
One  of  his  sisters  married  Dorson  E.  Sykes  (Yale  1833), 
and  another  married  Dr.  Ashbel  B.  Haile  (Yale  1835). 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  or  three  years  in  teaching 
in  Norwich,  where  he  also  studied  law,  and  began  practice 


292  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

in   1842.     After  three  years  he  emigrated  to  Angola,   in 
northeastern  Indiana,  partly  on  account  of  health. 

In  the  spring  of  1854  he  removed  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota 
Territory.  His  wife,  Nancy  Catharine  Orton,  died  there 
of  consumption,  on  July  29,  1854,  and  he  died,  four  days 
later,  on  August  2,  of  cholera,  after  a  few  hours'  illness, 
in  his  36th  year. 

Samuel  Washington  Polk,  the  youngest  child  of  Sam- 
uel and  Jane  (Knox)  Polk,  of  Maury  County,  Tennessee, 
was  born  on  October  17,  1817,  and  entered  Yale  early  in 
the  Sophomore  year.  His  eldest  brother,  at  this  time  a 
Member  of  Congress,  was  subsequently  President  of  the 
United  States. 

In  the  spring  of  his  Senior  year  exposure  in  a  storm 
brought  on  a  serious  illness,  which  developed  into  consump- 
tion. He  died  at  his  home,  near  Columbia,  Maury  County, 
on  February  24,  1839,  in  his  22d  year.  This  was  the  first 
death  in  the  Class. 

Carlos  Fernando  Ribeiro  was  born  in  Alcantara, 
Province  of  Maranhao,  Brazil,  in  1816,  and  was  prepared 
for  College  by  John  Hall  (Yale  1802)  in  the  Ellington 
(Connecticut)    School. 

For  three  years  after  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1841. 

He  then  returned  to  his  native  city,  and  after  a  year 
entered  the  Law  School  in  Olinda,  where  he  graduated  in 
October,  1846. 

He  then  went  at  once  to  Maranhao,  the  capital  of  his 
native  province ;  was  appointed  Secretary  to  the  President 
of  the  Province ;  and  served  as  Vice  President  in  the  Presi- 
dent's absence  in  1847. 

When  the  political  party  with  which  he  acted  went  out 
of  power  in  1849,  he  resigned  his  office  and  devoted  him- 
self to  the  practice  of  law. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1838  293 

On  August  I,  1852,  he  married  Anna  Vrosa  Lamoig-uere 
Vianna.  In  1858  he  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Amazonas.  From  1863  to  1866  he  was  a  member 
from  his  native  Province  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies  in 
the  General  Assembly  of  Brazil. 

He  then  retired  to  private  life,  on  his  sugar  plantation 
near  Alcantara. 

He  is  reported  to  have  died  there  in  1889,  at  the  age  of  "jt,. 

His  children  were  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

Ebenezer  Spalding,  the  youngest  son  of  Bela  Payne 
and  Betsey  (Bacon)  Spalding,  of  Brooklyn,  Connecticut, 
and  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Luther  Spalding  (Yale  1810),  was 
born  on  October  21,  18 16,  and  entered  Yale  in  1836. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Andrew  T.  Judson,  of 
Canterbury,  besides  being  for  a  few  months  (September- 
December,  1839)  a  member  of  the  Law  School  of  Harvard 
University. 

In  1840  he  began  practice  in  Ravenna,  Ohio,  where  he 
married,  on  February  14,  1844,  Frances  Louisa,  second 
daughter  of  Seth  and  IMatilda  (Martin)  Day. 

Besides  success  in  his  profession,  he  became  known  as  a 
contributor  to  the  press,  and  as  an  active  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. He  received  a  nomination  for  Congress,  but  lost  the 
election  by  a  few  votes  through  the  "Know-Nothing" 
excitement.  He  was  persuaded,  however,  to  abandon  his 
practice,  by  which  he  had  accumulated  a  considerable  for- 
tune, and  join  his  father-in-law  in  a  business  enterprise,  in 
which  he  lost  everything. 

In  1865  he  removed  to  St.  Louis  and  resumed  practice; 
but  died  of  cholera  on  August  17,  1866,  in  his  50th  year. 

His  surviving  children  were  three  sons  and  .1  daughter. 
Another  daughter  died  in  infancy. 

David  Tappan  Stoddard,  the  youngest  son  of  Solomon 
Stoddard  (Yale  1790)  and  Sarah   (Tappan)   Stoddard,  of 


294  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Northampton,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  December  2, 
1818,  and  was  named  for  his  mother's  uncle,  formerly  Pro- 
fessor of  Divinity  in  Harvard  College.  He  spent  his 
Freshman  year  in  Williams  College. 

For  one  year  after  graduation  he  was  a  tutor  in  Marshall 
College,  at  Mercersburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  he  then  entered 
the  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  In  the  fall  of  1840 
he  became  a  tutor  at  Yale,  and  during  the  two  years  in 
which  he  held  that  office  he  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Divinity  School. 

He  was  licensed  to  preach  on  May  i,  1842,  and  soon  after 
decided  to  offer  himself  for  appointment  by  the  American 
Board  as  a  missionary  to  the  Nestorians  of  Persia. 

He  was  ordained  to  this  work  on  January  27,  1843,  '" 
New  Haven,  and  was  married  on  February  14  to  Harriet, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Calvin  and  Rebecca  (Monroe")  Briggs,  of 
Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  and  sister  of  Dr.  James  C. 
Briggs  (Yale  1835). 

He  embarked  from  Boston  on  March  i,  and  reached 
Urumiah,  the  station  assigned  him,  in  northwestern  Persia, 
on  June  14.  After  four  years  of  unremitting  and  success- 
ful labor  as  a  preacher  and  as  the  head  of  a  seminary  for 
the  education  of  preachers,  his  health  broke  down,  and  in 
June,  1848,  he  was  persuaded  to  undertake  a  journey  of 
several  months  through  Asia  Minor  to  Constantinople.  On 
this  journey  his  wife  died  at  Trebizond,  of  cholera,  after 
a  few  hours'  illness,  on  August  2,  in  her  27th  year. 

After  this  bereavement  it  was  thought  best  for  him  to  pro- 
ceed immediately  to  America,  with  his  children.  A  long 
period  of  rest  followed,  and  he  was  not  allowed  to  leave  on 
his  return  until  March,  185 1.  Just  before  sailing,  on  Feb- 
ruary 14,  he  was  married  to  Sophia  Dana,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Austin  Hazen  (Dartmouth  Coll.  1807),  of  Berlin, 
Vermont,  and  Frances  Mary  (Dana)  Hazen. 

He  resumed  his  missionary  labors  in  June,  and  pursued 
them    with    renewed    zeal    and    efficiency.      His    linguistic 


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attainments  were  utilized  in  the  preparation  of  a  grammar 
of  modern  Syriac,  issued  in  1855. 

He  died  in  Urumiah,  after  a  month's  iUness,  from  typhus 
fever  contracted  on  a  journey,  on  January  22,  1857,  in  his 
39th  year. 

His  children,  by  his  first  marriage,  were  two  daughters, 
who  died  unmarried. 

His  widow  returned  to  America  in  1858,  and  was  mar- 
ried on  September  4,  1867,  to  William  H.  Stoddard,  of 
Northampton,  a  brother  of  her  husband.  She  died  in 
Northampton  in  March,  1891. 

A  Memoir  of  Mr.  Stoddard,  by  his  classmate  Thompson, 
was  published  in  1858. 

Thomas  Scott  Williams,  the  eldest  child  of  John  Wil- 
liams (Yale  1781)  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  (Dyer,  Silli- 
man)  Williams,  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
November  20,  1818. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  with  the  uncle  whose 
name  he  bore  (Yale  1794),  who  was  the  Chief  Justice  of 
the  State ;  and  also  in  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, during  part  of  the  year  1840. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Hartford  in 
the  fall  of  1 841,  and  on  the  17th  of  September,  1842,  went 
out  after  dinner,  with  a  fellow-boarder  at  his  hotel,  in  a 
small  boat  for  a  row  on  Little  (now  Park)  River.  They 
incautiously  went  too  near  the  dam  of  the  saw-mill,  were 
caught  in  the  eddy,  and  were  both  drowned. 

CuRTiss  Woodruff,  the  only  son  of  Solomon  Curtiss  and 
Juha  (North)  Woodruff,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on 
December  10,  1816.  The  family  (originally  of  Farming- 
ton)  removed  to  Catskill,  New  York,  in  1824. 

After  three  years  of  idleness,  he  settled  in  1841  in  Syra- 
cuse as  the  representative  of  a  business  firm  in  New  York 
City.     In  1843  he  went  into  business  on  his  own  account; 


296  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

and  on  March  19,  1846,  he  married  Augusta,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Philo  Norton  and  Betsey  (Bryan)  Rust,  of 
Syracuse. 

In  1853  he  removed  to  Brooklyn,  where  he  continued  in 
business  for  about  thirty  years. 

His  wife,  who  survived  him,  left  him  about  1873.  Their 
only  child,  a  son,  died  in  infancy. 

His  closing  years  were  spent  with  a  sister  in  Catskill. 
After  several  months  of  acute  suffering,  and  of  loss  of  his 
mental  faculties,  he  died  in  Catskill  on  November  23,  1887, 
in  his  71st  year. 


CLASS   OF    1839 

Thomas  Bradish  Biddle,  from  Detroit,  Michigan,  was 
born  on  December  23,  1821. 

He  studied  law,  with  intervals  of  travel,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Detroit,  but  never  entered  on  prac- 
tice. In  November,  1848,  he  went  to  China,  and  after 
his  return  visited  California,  in  1850.  Soon  after  his 
arrival  there  he  dropped  dead  suddenly  in  the  streets  of 
Sacramento  City,  on  August  15,  being  in  his  29th  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

William  Richards  Boardman,  the  eldest  child  of  Sher- 
man and  Henrietta  Boardman,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  December  21,  1818,  and  was  named  for  his 
maternal  grandfather.  A  sister  married  Dr.  George  B. 
Hawley  (Yale  1833). 

He  studied  medicine  with  David  Stuart  Dodge,  M.D. 
(Yale  1826),  of  Hartford,  and  also  attended  lectures  in 
the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  New  York 
and  in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  receiving  the  degree  of 
M.D.  here  in  the  spring  of  1843. 

On  his  return  to  Hartford,  after  a  brief  tour  of  inquiry 
for  an  opening  where  he   might   begin   practice,   he   was 


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attacked  with  an  inflammation  of  the  glands  of  the  throat, 
which  speedily  became  malignant,  and  caused  his  death, 
after  five  days'  illness,  on  June  25,  1843,  in  his  25th  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  St. John  Eldredge  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  on  February  23,  1820. 

He  was  the  first  scholar  in  his  Class,  but  at  the  close  of 
the  spring  term  of  Senior  year,  in  April,  he  was  obliged  to 
ask  relief  from  College  duties,  in  order  to  recruit  his  health. 
On  the  invitation  of  his  former  instructor,  Alphonso  Taft 
(Yale  1833),  he  accompanied  Mr.  Taft  to  his  father's  house, 
in  Townshend,  Vermont,  where  he  sank  gradually,  until  his 
death,  from  consumption,  on  February  12,  1840,  at  the  age 
of  20.     His  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 

William  Fairman,  son  of  James  B.  Fairman,  of  New- 
town, Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  17,  181 4. 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  City,  but  never  practiced, 
preferring  to  be  engaged  in  general  literary  work,  as  trans- 
lator, reporter,  and  editor.  Among  the  papers  with  which 
he  was  connected  were  the  Commercial  Advertiser,  and  the 
Golden  Rule,  an  Odd  Fellows'  journal. 

In  1850  he  was  Chief  Clerk  in  the  office  of  Mayor 
Woodhull. 

He  married,  on  May  20,  1845,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Adams, 
who  survived  him  with  one  son. 

He  died  on  November  22,  1854,  in  his  41st  year. 

Endress  Faulkner,  the  fifth  of  twelve  children,  and 
eldest  surviving  son,  of  Judge  Jam.es  and  Minerva  (Ham- 
mond) Faulkner,  of  Dansville,  New  York,  was  born  on 
March  25,  1818.  Three  of  his  brothers  were  graduated 
here  in  1859. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
until  the  spring  of  1842,  when  he  began  the  study  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Wilson  &  Starr,  in  Canandaigua. 


298  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1843,  ^"^  opened  an  office 
in  Dansville.  In  July,  1846,  he  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  EHzabeth  (Hurlburt)  Shepard,  of  Dansville. 
In  1848  he  added  to  his  successful  practice  a  partnership 
in  the  banking-house  of  S.  Sweet  &  Co.,  of  Dansville. 

In  1850  the  state  of  his  health  obliged  him  to  retire 
from  all  professional  labor,  and  he  spent  the  following 
winter  in  Florida,  with  some  benefit. 

His  wife  died  in  August,  1851.  In  the  fall  of  1852  he 
received  the  Democratic  nomination  for  Congress  in  his 
district,  which  was  equivalent  to  an  election ;  but  the  state 
of  his  health  forbade  his  acceptance. 

He  died  in  Dansville  on  November  12,  or  13,  1852,  in  his 
35th  year. 

His  children  were  two  sons,  of  whom  the  younger  died 
in  infancy,  and  the  elder  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1870. 

John  Morris  Gilbert,  son  of  John  and  Mehetabel  (Mor- 
ris)  Gilbert,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on  December  24, 

1815. 

He  had  long  intended  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but  after 
graduation,  having  sufifered  for  some  time  from  a  trouble- 
some cough,  he  accepted  a  position  as  private  tutor  in  a 
family  near  Natchez,  Mississippi.  As  consumptive  symp- 
toms increased,  he  returned  home  in  the  summer  of  1840, 
and  died  at  his  father's  house  on  October  9,  in  his  25th  year. 

Abram  Evan  Gwynne  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on 
July  18,  182 1. 

He  began  the  study  of  law,  after  graduation,  in  the  Yale 
Law  School;  but  six  months  later  returned  to  Cincinnati, 
having  married,  on  May  14,  Rachel  (or  Cettie),  younger 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Henry  C.  Flagg  (Yale  181 1),  of  New 
Haven. 

He  continued  his  studies  at  home,  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Timothy  Walker,  and  later  with  the  Hon.  Bellamy  Storer 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    1839  299 

(Bowdoin  Coll.  1821).  On  his  admission  to  the  bar  in 
June,  1842,  he  was  taken  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Storer, 
and  although  he  had  inherited  a  large  estate,  he  devoted 
himself  assiduously  to  his  profession,  and  had  attained  a 
high  reputation  before  his  death,  in  Cincinnati,  from  apo- 
plexy, on  January  30,  1855,  aged  331^  years. 

His  widow  married,  in  1861,  Albert  Mathews  (Yale 
1842),  of  New  York  City.  Her  children,  who  also  survived 
him,  were  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  One  daughter 
married  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  M.A.  (honorary  Yale  1894). 

David  Nichols  Hall,  the  eldest  child  of  Deacon  Luther 
and  Hannah  (Beers)  Hall,  of  Sutton,  Worcester  County, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  on  July  5,  1818. 

In  January,  1840,  he  went  to  Mississippi,  and  while 
teaching  in  the  vicinity  of  Columbus  for  about  two  years, 
began  the  study  of  law. 

He  then  settled  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  com- 
pleted his  studies  and  entered  on  practice.  By  his  diligence 
and  aptitude  he  gained  a  good  reputation,  and  in  the  spring 
of  1847  was  appointed  by  Governor  Edwards  Circuit  Attor- 
ney for  St.  Louis  County,  holding  the  office  until  August, 
1848.  He  was  nominated  for  reelection  by  the  Democratic 
party,  but  shared  in  their  defeat. 

On  August  29,  1847,  he  married  Sarah  C,  the  eldest 
child  of  David  S.  C.  H.  Smith,  M.D.  (Yale  1816),  and 
Lucy  (Hall)  Smith,  of  Sutton,  to  whom  he  had  long  been 
engaged.  She  died  on  January  15,  1849,  aged  26 ^X  years, 
and  their  only  child  died  not  long  after.  Hard  work  had 
already  seriously  impaired  his  strength,  and  he  sank  into 
a  decline,  dying  in  St.  Louis  on  March  28,  1851,  in  his 
33d  year. 

Alva  Abraham  Hurd  was  born  in  Clinton,  then  part  of 
Killingworth,  Connecticut,  on  December  29,  1812.  He 
became  a  Christian  while  a  carpenter's  apprentice  in  New 


300  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

York  City,  about  1832,  and  then  devoted  himself  to  study, 
with  the  intention  of  entering  the  ministry. 

During  the  last  term  of  Senior  year,  he  took  charge  of 
a  select  school  in  Saybrook,  and  while  thus  occupied  died 
of  brain-fever,  after  six  days'  illness,  on  August  15,  in  his 
27th  year.  His  name  was  enrolled  with  the  graduating 
class  at  Commencement,  the  following  week. 

Watts  Sherman  Lynde,  son  of  Judge  Tilly  Lynde,  of 
Sherburne,  New  York,  was  born  on  October  16,  1819,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1836.  The  family  had  removed  to  Homer 
in  1833. 

He  had  about  completed  a  course  of  legal  study  in  Mil- 
waukee, when  he  returned  home  for  a  visit,  in  company 
with  his  eldest  brother,  Charles  J.  Lynde  (Yale  1838),  in 
the  summer  of  1841 ;  and  with  his  brother  he  perished  in 
a  steamboat  disaster  on  Lake  Erie,  on  August  9  (see  above, 
p.  291),  in  his  22d  year. 

Ebenezer  Porter  Mason,  son  of  the  Rev.  Stephen 
Mason  (Williams  Coll.  1812)  and  of  Elizabeth  (Brown) 
Mason,  of  Washington,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  December 
7,  1819.  In  1829  his  father  removed  to  Nantucket;  and 
thence  to  Collinsville,  Connecticut,  in  1835. 

As  an  undergraduate  he  evinced  superior  mathematical 
powers  and  a  remarkable  genius  for  practical  astronomy ; 
but  during  his  first  winter  in  New  Haven,  symptoms  of 
pulmonary  disease  manifested  themselves,  which  were 
probably  aggravated  by  reckless  exposure  to  cold  in  making 
astronomical  observations. 

He  continued  at  the  College  as  a  resident  graduate, 
engaged  in  advanced  astronomical  researches,  and  in  pre- 
paring for  the  press  an  elaborate  paper  on  Nebulae  and  a 
treatise  on  Practical  Astronomy.  Through  September 
and  October,  1840,  he  accompanied,  the  United  States 
Commissioners  appointed  to  explore  the  disputed  north- 
eastern boundary  line,  and  returned  to  New  Haven  much 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 839  301 

exhausted.  Early  in  December  he  set  out  for  Richmond, 
Virginia,  where  he  had  near  relatives,  and  died  suddenly, 
near  Richmond,  at  the  home  of  an  aunt,  on  December  26, 
at  the  age  of  21. 

A  memoir  of  his  Life,  by  Professor  Denison  Olmsted, 
was  published  in  1842. 

Henry  Terry  Mason,  the  second  son  of  John  and  Ach- 
sah  (Terry)  Mason,  of  Enfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
November  24,  1814.  His  next  younger  brother  was  a  class- 
mate, and  another  was  graduated  in  1855. 

For  five  years  after  graduation  he  taught  in  a  private 
school  in  Baltimore. 

During  the  summer  of  1845  he  studied  law  in  Boston,  in 
the  office  of  Lyman  Mason,  and  continued  his  studies  during 
the  following  winter  in  Cincinnati,  in  the  office  of  Alphonso 
Taft  (Yale  1833). 

In  July,  1846,  he  went  to  Columbus,  Ohio,  as  a  student 
in  the  office  of  Aaron  F.  Perry,  and  when  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  December  began  practice  there.  In  September, 
1847,  he  sufifered  severely  from  fever  and  ague,  and  after 
a  few  days  of  great  depression,  he  took  his  own  life,  in  a 
fit  of  temporary  insanity,  on  September  30,  in  his  33d  year. 
He  was  unmarried. 

John  Francis  Mason,  a  brother  of  the  last-named 
graduate,  was  born  in  Enfield,  Connecticut,  on  November 
I,  1816. 

He  left  College  in  poor  health,  and  pursued  studies  at 
home,  preparatory'  to  an  application  for  appointment  as 
Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  United  States  Navy ;  but 
when  he  had  passed  the  examination,  and  was  ordered  in 
November,  1841,  to  report  for  duty,  his  health  forbade  his 
acceptance. 

He  died  in  Enfield,  from  consumption,  on  September  12. 
1842,  in  his  26th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


302  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Justus  Smith  Masters,  son  of  Judge  Josiah  Masters 
(Yale  1783),  was  born  in  Schaghticoke,  Rensselaer  County, 
New  York,  on  August  24,  1819,  and  entered  College  from 
New  York  City.  His  father  died  in  his  infancy,  and  his 
residence  at  graduation  was  in  Smith's  Valley,  a  village  in 
Lebanon  Township,  Madison  County. 

He  studied  law  for  a  year  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
then  completed  his  studies  in  Hamilton,  Madison  County, 
where  he  began  practice. 

He  married  Frances  Upton  Morris,  of  Mount  Upton, 
Chenango  County,  about  1845. 

About  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  became  subject  to 
attacks  of  epilepsy,  which  gradually  undermined  his  mental 
as  well  as  his  bodily  health,  and  finally  resulted  in  insanity. 

He  became  an  inmate  of  the  Retreat  for  the  Insane,  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1853,  and  died  there,  on  Septem- 
ber II,  1855,  at  the  age  of  36.  His  wife  survived  him,  with 
a  son  and  a  daughter. 

John  Yale  Mills  was  born  in  Killingworth,  Con- 
necticut, on  January  22,  1812.  His  family  subsequently 
removed  to  Twinsburg,  Summit  County,  Ohio,  and  he 
entered  Yale  from  Western  Reserve  College  at  the  opening 
of  Junior  year. 

For  about  eighteen  months  after  graduation  he  was  the 
assistant  principal  of  a  large  school  in  New  York  City. 
On  his  health  failing,  he  returned  to  Twinsburg,  where  he 
died,  from  consumption,  on  July  4,  1841,  in  his  30th  year. 

Francis  Allyn  Olmsted,  the  eldest  child  of  Professor 
Denison  Olmsted  (Yale  1813),  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  at  Chapel  Hill,  was  born  on  July  14,  1819.  His 
father  accepted  a  professorship  at  Yale  in  1825. 

In  October,  1839,  he  sailed  on  a  whale-ship,  for  the  bene- 
fit of  his  health,  on  a  voyage  to  the  Pacific,  of  which  he 
published  in  1841  an  account,  under  the  title  of  Incidents  of 
a  Whaling  Voyage. 


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He  returned  in  February,  1841,  and  in  the  fall  entered 
the  Yale  Medical  School,  and  was  registered  as  a  student 
for  the  two  succeeding  annual  sessions.  He  was  also  for 
a  time  Assistant  Physician  at  the  Retreat  for  the  Insane 
in  Hartford. 

He  went  to  the  West  Indies  for  the  winter  of  1843-44, 
and  the  degree  of  M.D.  was  conferred  on  him  during  his 
absence. 

He  returned  without  benefit,  and  died  at  his  home  in 
New  Haven,  on  July  19,  at  the  age  of  25. 

CuLLEN  Packard,  son  of  Philander  Packard,  of  Cum- 
mington,  Hampshire  County,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
1815. 

For  eight  years  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Natchez, 
Mississippi, — for  the  first  two  years  in  Dr.  Stephen  Dun- 
can's family,  and  afterwards  in  a  school  established  by 
himself. 

Subsequently  he  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Louisiana.  He  did  not,  however,  long  practice,  but  held 
for  a  time  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion in  Concordia  County,  and  finally  engaged  in  teaching 
a  very  successful  private  school  in  New  Orleans. 

He  died  on  August  20,  1853,  i"  ^^^  S^^h  year. 

Eliphalet  Parker,  the  third  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Sarah 
(Comstock)  Parker,  of  Montville.  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  August  28,  1814. 

After  a  year  spent  in  teaching  in  the  Academy  in  Brook- 
lyn, Connecticut,  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School, 
where  he  remained  for  two  years.  In  1842,  he  was  licensed 
to  preach  by  the  New  London  Association. 

In  September,  1842,  he  was  settled  as  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Almont,  Lapeer  County.  Michi- 
gan, forty  miles  north  of  Detroit ;  but  on  account  of  insuffi- 
cient health  he  resi£:ned  after  two  years'  service. 


304  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  remained  in  Almont  for  two  years  longer,  as  teacher 
in  an  academy,  but  was  finally  obliged  to  give  up  all  labor 
and  return  to  his  native  place,  where  he  was  for  five  years 
a  helpless  sufferer  from  brain-disease,  the  result  of  over- 
work. For  the  last  two  years  of  his  life  he  was  also 
totally  blind. 

He  died  in  Montville  on  March  i,  1854,  in  his  40th  year. 

He  married,  on  August  30,  1847,  Helen  E.  Bailey,  of 
Rutland,  Vermont,  who  survived  him,  with  their  only 
child,  a  son. 

Charles  Henry  Porter,  the  third  son  of  Epaphras  and 
Lucretia  (Huntington)  Porter,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  August  8,  181 1,  and  began  a  mercantile  career 
in  an  uncle's  house  in  New  York  City.  The  death  of  his 
older  brother  (Yale  1828)  in  1829  led  to  his  becoming  a 
Christian,  and  this  step  resulted  in  the  desire  for  a  col- 
legiate education,  with  a  view  to  the  ministry. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  and 
at  the  end  of  his  second  year  was  licensed  to  preach,  on  July 
28,  1 841,  by  the  Association  of  New  London  County.  He 
had  already  taken  a  prodigious  amount  of  religious  work  as 
a  layman,  and  he  now  began  to  preach  with  fervor  and 
diligence.  He  was  called  back  to  New  Haven  by  the  illness 
of  a  friend  on  September  4,  and  was  attacked  on  the  loth 
with  dysentery,  from  which  he  died  on  the  26th,  in  his 
31st  year.     He  was  buried  in  New  Haven. 

A  Memoir  of  his  life,  by  the  Rev.  E.  Goodrich  Smith 
(Yale  1822),  was  published  by  the  American  Tract 
Society  in  1849. 

Daniel  Lewis  Rumsey  was  born  in  the  village  of  Silver- 
creek,  in  Hanover  township,  Chautauqua  County,  New  York, 
on  November  12,  1818. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Brickland,  Lunenburg 
County,  Virginia,  and  after  an  interval  spent  at  home 
entered  the  Yale  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  184 1.     A  year 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1839  .^^S 

later  he  was  appointed  Tutor  in  the  College,  and  he  served 
in  that  office  for  two  years  with  unusual  acceptance. 

The  winter  of  1844-45  ^le  spent  in  Rochester,  New  York, 
in  the  office  of  Orlando  Hastings,  where  he  completed  his 
legal  studies.  When  nearly  ready  to  enter  on  practice,  he 
was  attacked  by  disease  of  the  lungs,  of  the  gravest 
character. 

The  winter  of  1845-46  was  spent  in  the  island  of  St. 
Thomas,  in  the  West  Indies;  during  the  next  winter  he 
visited  the  Mediterranean ;  and  the  succeeding  winter  he 
passed  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  and  Pass  Christian,  Mississippi. 

In  May,  1848,  while  in  Pass  Christian,  he  was  seized  with 
violent  hemorrhages,  which  reduced  his  strength  greatly. 
He  was  able,  however,  to  reach  his  home  in  Silvercreek, 
where  he  died  on  October  16,  in  his  30th  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Julius  Eliada  Sanford,  the  eldest  child  of  Perit  Merri- 
man  and  Sibyl  (Dorman)  Sanford,  of  North  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  December  22,  181 5.  He  was  a 
nephew  of  Whiting  Sanford  (Yale  1816). 

After  a  year  spent  in  teaching  in  Natchez,  Mississippi,  he 
studied  law  in  Bloomington,  Iowa,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1841. 

He  established  himself  at  first  in  Marion,  the  county 
seat  of  Linn  County.  On  July  16,  1845,  he  married  Hen- 
rietta E.  Johnson,  of  New  Haven,  and  later  in  the  same 
year  he  removed  to  Dubuque. 

His  rise  in  his  profession  was  rapid,  but  he  died  in 
Dubuque,  after  a  very  short  illness,  on  August  6,  1847,  in 
his  32d  year. 

His  two  children  died  in  infancy. 

Charles  Taintor,  the  second  son  of  Captain  Ncwhall 
and  Ruth  (Smith)  Taintor,  of  Colchester,  Connecticut, 
was  born  in  February,  1818. 


3o6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  graduation  he  took  charge  of  the  Catahoula  Acad- 
emy in  Harrisonburg,  Louisiana,  and  at  the  same  time  pur- 
sued legal  studies.  The  pressure  of  these  double  duties  was 
too  much  for  his  constitution, — especially  with  the  strain  of 
the  preparation  and  delivery  of  a  public  address  on  the 
Fourth  of  July,  and  with  the  illness  and  death  of  his  assist- 
ant teacher, — so  that  he  fell  an  easy  victim  to  a  painful 
attack  of  congestive  fever,  from  which  he  died  on  July  25, 
1840,  in  his  23d  year. 

Silas  Flournoy  Trotter,  son  of  Joseph  Trotter,  of 
Courtland,  in  northwestern  Alabama,  was  born  on  March 
4,  1820.  His  mother  was  Martha  Flournoy,  of  Pulaski, 
Tennessee,  and  he  was  named  for  her  father. 

Very  little  is  knowni  of  his  career.  In  1850  he  was  in  a 
counting-house  in  New  Orleans.  One  of  his  classmates 
received  a  letter  from  him  in  1854,  and  he  is  reported  from 
Alabama  as  having  died  in  Rio  de  Janeiro  before  i860. 
Another  account  places  his  death  in  Panama. 

John  Marsh  Watson,  the  youngest  child  of  William  and 
Mary  Watson,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May 
23,  1819,  was  named  for  his  maternal  grandfather,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1837.  A  brother  was  graduated  here  in 
1829,  and  a  sister  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Oliver  E.  Daggett 
(Yale  1828). 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hungerford  &  Cone,  in 
Hartford,  and  began  practice  in  New  York  City  about 
1843.  His  health  was  not  firm,  and  consumptive  tenden- 
cies had  already  shown  themselves,  when  in  the  fall  of  1848 
his  strength  was  greatly  reduced  by  an  attack  of  ship-fever, 
which  left  him  too  weak  to  resume  business. 

He  went  back  to  his  ancestral  home  in  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  died,  after  a  gradual  decline,  on  April 
13,  1849.  in  his  30th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


VALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    184O  30 7 

An  interesting-  sketch  of  his  rehgious  experience  is  given 
in  a  sketch  entitled  the  Candid  Inquirer,  in  a  small  volume 
published  by  the  American  Sunday-School  Union  in  1853, 
called  Light  and  Cloud  in  the  Dark  Valley,  by  a  Layman 
[the  Hon.  Lewis  Strong]. 

William  Perkins  Williams,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Hon. 
Thomas  Wheeler  Williams,  of  New  London,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  August  17,  1819.  His  father  was  a  Repre- 
sentative in  Congress  from  1839  to  1843.  His  mother  was 
Lucretia  Woodbridge,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Elias  Perkins 
(Yale  1786),  of  New  London. 

As  his  health  required  a  change  of  climate,  he  sailed  in 
November,  1839,  for  London,  proceeding  thence  to  France 
and  Italy.  In  September.  1840,  as  his  cough  had  abated, 
he  ventured  to  go  to  Dresden,  for  further  study  of  German. 
In  November,  as  he  grew  worse,  and  was  very  anxious  to 
reach  home,  he  set  out  for  London,  where  he  arrived,  after 
a  trying  journey,  in  January,  1841,  but  too  feeble  for  fur- 
ther exertion.  He  died  in  Ventnor,  on  the  Isle  of  Wight, 
on  March  9,  in  his  22d  year. 


CLASS  OF    1840 

William  Eyre  Ashburner  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on 
March  22,  1816. 

He  returned  to  Philadelphia,  and  after  being  for  a  short 
time  in  the  book  business,  became  a  teacher. 

He  died  in  Philadelphia  on  November  26,  1847,  in  his 
32d  year. 

James  Staunton  Babcock,  the  eldest  son  of  James  and 
Mary  Babcock,  of  (South)  Coventry,  Connecticut,  was  bom 
on  November  7,  181 5.  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of 
Junior  year.     His  father  had  died  in  183 1. 


3o8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  the  fall  of  1840,  his  health  causing  anxiety,  he  went 
to  Tuscaloosa,  Alabama,  where  he  conducted  a  select 
school  until  the  spring  of  1843,  when  he  returned  home, 
much  improved.  In  the  ensuing  fall  he  settled  in  New 
Haven  for  study,  but  in  the  spring  of  1845  was  obliged  to 
^abandon  all  work,  by  the  progress  of  consumption. 

He  died  in  Coventry,  on  April  13,  1847,  i^i  his  32d  year. 

He  had  exhibited  pleasing  talents  as  a  writer,  and  some  of 
his  poems  had  been  printed  in  the  American  Whig  Review, 
under  the  editorship  of  his  classmate  Colton;  in  1849  a 
volume  of  his  manuscript  poems,  with  a  biographical  sketch, 
was  published. 

Peter  Richard  Beasley,  of  Brunswick  County,  Vir- 
ginia, was  born  in  1818. 

He  settled  on  a  plantation  near  Huntsville,  Alabama,  and 
died  there,  of  congestive  fever,  in  the  spring  of  1844,  in 
his  26th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Christopher  James  Beirne,  of  Union,  Monroe  County, 
(West)  Virginia,  was  born  on  July  9,  1819. 

He  became  a  lawyer  in  his  native  place,  and  represented 
the  county  in  the  State  legislature. 

He  died,  near  Union,  on  October  22,  1868,  in  his  50th 
year. 

Simeon  Charles  Bristol,  the  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
Bristol,  of  Southington,  Connecticut,  by  his  second  wife, 
Lucy  Newell,  was  born  on  April  24,  1818.  His  father  died 
in  1827,  and  his  mother  married,  in  April,  1833,  the  Rev. 
Moses  Ordway  (Middlebury  Coll.  1820),  a  home  mission- 
ary in  western  New  York.  The  family  home  was  in  the 
suburbs  of  Rochester,  when  he  entered  Yale. 

He  studied  law  with  William  P.  Lynde  (Yale  1838)  in 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin  Territory,  and  in  1843  removed  to 
Beaver  Dam,  Dodge  County,  where  his  mother  was  settled 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    184O  309 

and  began  practice.  In  1845  he  represented  Dodge  County 
in  the  territorial  House  of  Delegates. 

In  1849  he  went  to  California,  and  he  died  in  a  hospital 
there,  of  chronic  diarrhea,  in  February,  1850,  in  his  32d  year. 

He  married  Miss  Ordway,  his  step-sister,  who  survived 
him  with  one  or  two  children. 

Bagenal  Colclough  was  born  in  the  count}-  of  Wex- 
ford, Ireland,  on  October  20,  1820,  and  was  brought  to 
America  when  eight  or  nine  years  old.  His  residence  on 
entering  Yale  was  Montgomery,  Alabama. 

In  April,  1842,  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard 
University,  and  continued  there  until  the  summer  of  1843. 
He  soon  after  visited  Ireland,  to  bring  his  parents  to  this 
country,  and  then  became  a  partner  of  his  brother,  R.  A. 
Colclough,  in  Montgomery.  His  health,  however,  was  deli- 
cate, and  on  account  of  consumptive  S3aTiptoms  a  change 
of  climate  was  advised.  In  the  fall  of  1847  ^^  went  to 
Dekalb,  in  Kemper  County,  Mississippi,  and  after  some 
apparent  improvement  sank  rapidly,  just  when  he  was  pre- 
paring to  return  home,  and  died  on  July  11,  1848,  in  his 
28th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

George  Hooker  Colton,  son  of  the  Rev.  George  Colton 
(Yale  1804),  of  Westford,  Otsego  County,  New  York,  was 
born  on  October  25,  1818;  the  family  residence  when  he 
entered  College  was  in  Wyoming,  Wyoming  County.  He 
was  known  for  his  poetical  ability  in  College,  and  gave  the 
Salutatory  Oration  at  graduation. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  but 
his  main  attraction  was  towards  study  and  literature.  In 
connection  with  the  presidential  campaign  of  1840  he  became 
interested  in  the  Indian  wars  in  which  General  Harrison  had 
been  engaged,  and  was  thus  led  to  the  composition  and 
publication  (in  March,  1842)  of  a  long  poem  called  Tccum- 
seh,  and  to  the  delivery  in  1842-43  of  a  series  of  lectures 


3IO  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

on  the  Indians.  Meantime  he  was  settled  in  New  Haven 
as  a  graduate  student.  In  1844  he  delivered  a  Poem  before 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  at  Commencement. 

In  January,  1845,  he  established  in  New  York  City  a 
Whig  monthly  magazine,  called  the  American  Review,  which 
he  edited  with  much  ability  until  his  death,  in  New  York, 
from  typhus  fever,  acting  on  a  system  reduced  by  overwork, 
on  December  i,  1847,  i"  his  30th  year. 

Charles  Day.  the  youngest  son  of  Noble  and  Elizabeth 
(Jones)  Day,  of  Washington,  Connecticut,  and  a  nephew 
of  President  Day,  was  born  on  August  18,  1818.  Two 
brothers  were  graduated  here,  in  1828  and  1839,  respectively. 

He  studied  law  for  three  years,  but  then  took  up  a  mer- 
cantile life,  at  first  in  Apalachicola,  Florida,  later  in  New 
Orleans,  and  finally  in  Macon,  Georgia. 

In  1856  his  business  led  him  to  settle  in  New  York  City. 

He  was  married,  on  December  14,  1865,  to  Mrs.  Mary 
(or  Minnie)  H.  Upham,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Hon. 
Solomon  George  Haven,  of  Bufifalo,  who  survived  him  with- 
out children. 

He  died  suddenly  at  the  Pequot  House,  in  New  London, 
Connecticut,  on  August  24,  1889,  at  the  age  of  71,  and  was 
buried  in  Bufifalo. 

John  Breed  D wight,  the  second  son  of  James  and 
Susan  (Breed)  Dwight,  and  a  grandson  of  President 
Dwight,  was  born  in  Norwich,  Connecticut,  on  December 
8,  182 1.  Two  brothers  were  graduated  here,  in  1846  and 
1849,  respectively. 

The  three  years  after  graduation  he  was  occupied  in 
teaching  and  in  advanced  study.  The  last  week  in  Septem- 
ber, 1843,  he  entered  on  a  tutorship  at  Yale,  and  within 
four  days,  while  helping  to  quell  a  disturbance  on  the  Col- 
lege grounds,  was  fatally  wounded  by  an  intoxicated  Sopho- 
more.    His  death  followed  on  October  20,  in  his  22d  year 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    l8^0  511 

Stuart  Wilkins  Fisk  was  born  in  Natchez,  Mississippi, 
on  August  28,  1820. 

He  entered  the  Law  School  of  Iriarvard  University  in 
February,  1841,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1843. 

He  was  admitted  later  in  the  same  year  to  the  bar  in 
Natchez,  where  he  entered  into  practice,  and  became  very 
wealthy. 

During  the  Civil  War  he  was  Colonel  of  a  Confederate 
regiment  raised  in  Natchez  and  was  killed  in  the  battle  of 
Stone  River,  Tennessee,  on  December  31,  1862,  in  his  43d 
year. 

Thomas  Edwin  Foster,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Chand- 
ler and  Abigail  (Abbot)  Foster,  of  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  on  December  16,  1820. 

After  two  years  of  teaching  and  one  year  in  the  Yale 
Divinity  School,  he  was  recalled  to  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover  (where  he  had  prepared  for  College),  as  an 
instructor.  He  taught  there  for  four  years  (1843-47),  at 
the  same  time  continuing  his  theological  studies,  which  he 
completed  in  the  Andover  Seminary  in  1848. 

He  found  some  occupation  as  a  preacher  in  Vermont,  but 
his  success  was  not  what  he  had  expected,  and  his  health 
was  not  good;  so  that  in  1850  he  became  much  depressed. 
He  had  previously  been  deranged,  and  in  January,  1851.  he 
was  so  much  affected  by  the  suicide  of  an  acquaintance  that 
it  was  necessary  to  place  him  in  the  Insane  Retreat  at 
Somerville.  He  returned  home  early  in  March,  apparently 
much  improved;  but  took  his  own  life  on  Marcli  17.  in  his 
31st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Joseph  Merriam  Grout,  son  of  Moses  and  Catharine 
(Warren)  Grout,  of  Westboro,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
September  11,  1814.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1836. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  the  fall  of  1840, 
and  finished  the  course  in  three  years. 


312  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  November,  1844,  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Ameri- 
can Home  Missionary  Society,  and  was  stationed  at  various 
points  in  IlHnois  from  that  date  until  his  death.  Among  the 
churches  which  he  served  the  longest  were  those  in  Warsaw, 
on  the  Mississippi  River  (1845-49),  and  in  Mechanicsburg, 
near  Springfield  (1851).  He  died  in  Shelbyville,  from 
cholera,  on  August  i,  1855,  in  his  41st  year.  He  had  con- 
tracted the  disease  while  exhausted  from  ministering  to 
other  victims. 

He  left  a  widow,  with  one  child. 

Ambrose  Newton  Hitchcock,  the  youngest  son  of 
Artemas  and  Abigail  (Brooks)  Hitchcock,  of  Brinfield, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  on  November  28,  1813. 

He  died  of  congestive  brain  fever,  while  teaching  school 
in  Kentucky,  on  August  8,  1842,  in  his  29th  year. 

GusTAvus  Adolphus  Holcombe  was  born  in  Savannah, 
Georgia,  on  December  26,  1820,  and  entered  Yale  in  1837. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and  practiced  his 
profession  in  Scarboro,  about  sixty  miles  northwest  of 
Savannah. 

During  the  Civil  War  he  taught  school  in  Wrightsville, 
Johnson  County,  and  subsequently  in  Louisville,  Jefferson 
County. 

At  the  end  of  1878  he  returned  to  Scarboro,  to  take 
charge  of  a  school  there,  but  died  of  heart-disease,  just  after 
his  arrival,  on  January  i,  1879,  ^t  the  age  of  58. 

A  daughter  survived  him. 

Chauncey  Parkman  Judd,  third  son  of  Sylvester  and 
Apphia  (Hall)  Judd,  of  Westhampton,  Massachusetts,  and 
a  brother  of  Sylvester  Judd  (Yale  1836),  was  born  on  Jan- 
uary 24,  1815.  The  family  removed  to  Northampton  in 
1822. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    184O  313 

He  resided  for  a  few  years  in  South  Carolina,  and  then 
returned  and  studied  law  with  Jud.e^e  Charles  P.  Huntington 
(Harvard  1822),  of  Northampton. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845,  and  continued  in 
practice  in  Boston  until  1850,  when  he  removed  his  resi- 
dence to  Reading,  with  an  office  in  both  places. 

He  married  Sarah  Dawes,  of  Cambridge,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children. 

He  died  in  Reading  in  June,  1893,  in  his  79th  year. 

John  Smith  Kelley  was  born  in  Middletown,  Connect- 
icut, on  June  26,  1821,  the  only  child  of  John  S.  and  Lucy 
(Kelley)  Kelley;  his  father  (of  Lyme)  died  in  1820, 
and  his  mother  married,  in  1825,  Joseph  E.  Lathrop,  of 
Middletown. 

He  spent  his  Freshman  year  in  the  Wesleyan  University, 
at  Middletown. 

He  taught  in  Haddam  for  the  first  year  after  graduation, 
and  then  served  for  two  years  as  Tutor  in  Wesleyan 
University. 

In  the  fall  of  1843  ^^  entered  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  in  New  York  City,  and  while  pursuing  his  studies 
there  he  died,  in  New  York,  on  December  29,  1844,  in  his 
24th  year. 

David  Lamb,  of  Pittstown,  Rensselaer  County,  New 
York,  was  born  on  January  5,  1820. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  New  Haven,  to  study  in 
the  Yale  Law  School ;  and  after  a  year  and  a  half  here, 
he  spent  another  year  in  the  office  of  Olin  &  White,  of  Troy, 
where  he  was  admitted  to  practice. 

In  the  fall  of  1845  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  and  pursued 
further  study  with  Alphonso  Taft  (Yale  1833). 

In  the  spring  of  1847  he  opened  an  office  in  that  city,  and 
although  meeting  with  fair  success,  he  decided  in  1849  to 
pursue  his  profession  in  San  Francisco. 


314  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  left  New  York  on  May  25,  in  perfect  health,  but  con- 
tracted yellow  fever  at  Havana.  On  June  23  he  wrote  to 
his  family  from  Panama,  saying  that  he  was  quite  ill,  but 
should  sail  that  day  on  the  steamer  California  for  San 
Francisco. 

He  sailed  accordingly,  but  died  on  board  the  steamer,  in 
July,  near  San  Diego,  in  his  30th  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Charles  James  Miller  was  born  in  Fayetteville,  in  New^- 
fane  township,  X^ermont,  on  January  24,  1816. 

In  the  fall  of  1840  he  went  to  Mount  Carmel,  on  the 
Wabash  River,  in  southeastern  Illinois,  where  he  taught  for 
three  years  in  the  High  School.  He  then  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Jacob  Lescher,  of  Mount  Carmel,  whose  daughter 
Elvina  he  married  on  January  6,  1848. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  established  himself  in  practice  in 
the  adjoining  town  of  Friendsville. 

Later  he  returned  to  Mount  Carmel,  and  entered  into 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law.  Dr.  John  J.  Lescher, 
joining  him  also  in  the  drug  business. 

He  was  successful  in  his  profession,  and  highly  esteemed. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  an  Elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

He  died  in  Mount  Carmel  on  May  10,  1859,  in  his  44th 
year.  His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter, four  children  having  died  in  infancy. 

DeWitt  Clinton  Morris  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on 
July  13,  1 82 1,  and  entered  Yale  from  Bristol,  Pennsylvania. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  established  himself  in  practice. 

He  married,  on  August  2y,  1846,  Charlotte  A.,  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  Bryan  (Law)  Johnson,  of  New 
Haven,  who  died  on  March  19,  185 1,  aged  2y  years. 

In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  United 
States  Treasury  Department. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  184O  315 

He  died  in  1868. 

A  daughter  married  Professor  William  A.  Houghton 
(Yale  1873). 

Oscar  Theodore  Noyes  was  born  in  Modena,  a  village  in 
the  township  of  Plattekill,  Ulster  County,  New  York,  on 
April  22,  1819.     A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1837. 

He  studied  law  and  settled  in  his  native  village  as  a  lawyer 
and  farmer. 

He  died  in  Modena,  during  the  first  week  in  November, 
1854,  in  his  36th  year. 

He  was  married. 

Cale  Pelton,  the  eleventh  in  a  family  of  twelve  children 
of  Cale  and  Esther  (Crittenden)  Pelton,  of  Buckland, 
Franklin  County,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  September, 
181 1,  and  entered  Yale  in  1837. 

He  became  a  teacher  in  Philadelphia,  and  married,  in 
1842,  Ann  Ferrier  Wood,  of  Halifax,  Dauphin  County, 
Pennsylvania,  who  died  on  February  20,  1846,  at  the  age 
of  28. 

He  died  of  consumption,  at  the  house  of  an  uncle  of  his 
wife,  in  Fox  Chase,  Philadelphia,  on  September  12,  1853. 
at  the  age  of  42. 

No  children  survived  their  parents. 

He  was  well  known  as  the  inventor  and  manufacturer  of 
the  Pelton  Outline  Maps. 

William  Perkins,  son  of  Judge  John  Perkins,  of  Grand 
Gulf,  Claiborne  County,  Mississippi,  was  born  on  April  26, 
1821.  When  he  entered  College,  with  an  elder  brother,  the 
family  residence  was  Columbus,  Lowndes  County. 

He  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  University  in 
March.  1842,  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  .-Xugust. 

1843. 

He   settled    as   a    lawyer    in    Ashwood,    Tensas    County, 

Louisiana  (just  across  the  Mississippi  River  from  his  birth- 


3l6  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

place),  and  practiced  successfully  in  that  and  the  adjoining 
(Madison)  County,  until  his  removal  to  New  Orleans  in 
the  fall  of  1853.  He  was  at  one  time  District  Attorney  of 
Tensas  County. 

In  July,  1854,  he  went  abroad  for  relaxation,  and  took 
passage  for  his  return  on  the  steamer  Arctic,  and  perished 
in  her  shipwreck,  on  September  27,  in  his  34th  year. 

He  married,  in  1846,  Miss  Murdock,  of  Mississippi,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children. 

Henry  Martyn  Proctor  was  born  in  Boston  on  Novem- 
ber 29,  1820,  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Ruth  (Carter) 
Proctor,  natives  of  New  Hampshire. 

In  December,  1841,  he  shipped  as  a  common  sailor  on 
board  the  bark  General  Scott,  bound  from  Boston  to  Sydney, 
New  South  Wales.  When  two  days  out  of  port,  on  the 
night  of  the  22d,  he  fell  overboard  and  was  lost,  in  his 
22d  year. 

Charles  Joseph  Ruggles  was  born  in  Newburgh,  New 
York,  on  November  5,  1820,  the  second  son  of  David  and 
Sarah  (Colden)  Ruggles,  and  grandson  of  Joseph  Ruggles, 
of  New  Milford,  Connecticut.  His  father  died  in  Decem- 
ber of  his  Sophomore  year.  Samuel  B.  Ruggles  (Yale 
1814)  was  a  second  cousin. 

He  studied  law,  and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1843, 
practiced  his  profession  in  Poughkeepsie,  until  October, 
1848,  though  failing  health  had  in  the  meantime  obliged  him 
to  spend  two  winters  at  the  South.  From  this  time  he  sank 
gradually  from  consumption,  until  his  death,  in  Poughkeep- 
sie, on  September  25,  1849,  i^  his  29th  year.  He  was  buried 
in  a  family  lot,  in  Coldenham,  in  Newburgh. 

James  Smith,  the  third  son  of  William  and  Olive  (Gray) 
Smith,  of  Peterboro,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  on  Jan- 
uary 15,  1816,  and  entered  Yale  in  1837.     His  father  was 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  184O  317 

a  first  cousin  of  the  distinguished  New  Hampshire  jurist, 
Jeremiah  Smith. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  the  family  of 
his  classmates,  John  and  William  Perkins,  in  Columbus, 
Mississippi. 

In  March,  1842,  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard 
University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
August,  1843. 

Later  in  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
Orleans,  where  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  class- 
mate, John  Perkins. 

His  health  soon  failed,  and  he  returned  to  his  native  place, 
where  he  died,  of  pulmonary  consumption,  on  the  evening 
of  December  31,  1846,  just  as  the  clock  struck  midnight,  in 
his  31st  year. 

He  was  a  man  of  superior  talents  and  of  unusually  win- 
ning address. 

Nelson  Smith  entered  College  from  Augusta,  Oneida 
County,  New  York,  in  1837. 

He  became  a  lawyer,  and  settled  in  Alabama ;  at  one  time 
he  was  reported  to  be  in  CarroUton,  and  later  in  Selma. 

George  William  Steere  was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  on  June  14,  1814. 

He  resided  for  several  years  after  graduation  in  Louisi- 
ana, for  a  part  of  the  time  as  instructor  in  the  family  of  his 
classmates,  the  Perkins  brothers. 

In  1848  he  was  living  in  Pensacola.  Florida,  in  delicate 
health;  and  he  is  said  to  have  died  there  in  1849,  at  the 
age  of  35.     He  was  never  married. 

George  Chapman  Watte,  the  second  son  of  Judge  Henry 
M.  Waite  (Yale  1809).  of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
August  13,  1820. 


3i;8  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  spending  about  a  year  in  the  study  of  law  with  his 
father,  he  removed  to  Troy,  New  York,  where  he  completed 
his  studies  under  the  instruction  of  George  Gould  (Yale 
1827).  In  1844  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began 
practice  in  Troy,  where  he  continued  until  the  latter  part 
of  July,  1849,  when  he  returned  to  his  father's  house,  on 
account  of  declining  health.  After  a  confinement  to  his 
room  for  about  two  weeks,  he  died  in  Lyme,  on  August  11, 
at  the  age  of  29.  A  disease  affecting  the  digestive  organs 
had  gradually  impaired  his  health  for  some  two  or  three 
years,  and  finally  led  to  a  pulmonary  afifection.  He  had 
obtained  a  good  share  of  business,  and  gave  promise  of 
success.     He  was  unmarried. 

Theodore  Burg  Wither  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Penn- 
sylvania, on  April  26,  1818. 

He  spent  the  first  year  after  graduation  in  the  Law  School 
of  Harvard  University,  and  after  further  study  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar  in  1843.  He  soon  after 
sailed  for  Europe,  and  was  absent  until  1845. 

After  that  his  residence  was  in  Philadelphia,  but  he  sev- 
eral times  revisited  Europe.  While  sailing  along  the  Span- 
ish coast  of  the  Mediterranean,  he  was  drowned  in  a 
collision,  near  Malaga,  on  March  29,  1856,  in  his  38th 
year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Edward  Wright,  the  youngest  child  of  Judah  and 
Susanna  (Root)  Wright,  of  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  May  i,  181 5.  His  father  died  in  1823,  and  he  was 
brought  up  to  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  until  a  new  religious 
experience  led  him  to  devote  himself  to  the  work  of  the 
ministry. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where 
he  finished  the  course  in  1843;  ^^^  o"  June  28  of  that 
year  he  was  ordained  and  installed  as  colleague  pastor  of 
the  Congregational   Church   in   West  Haven,   Connecticut. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 84 1  319 

On  the  nth  of  the  same  month  he  was  married  to  Susan, 
second  daughter  of  Willard  and  Susanna  (Arms)  Arms,  of 
Brattleboro,  Vermont. 

The  senior  pastor,  Mr.  Stebbins.  died  in  Au.£,aist,  1843, 
and  Mr.  Wright  continued  as  sole  pastor  until  his  death. 
He  also,  with  his  wife's  assistance,  conducted  a  flourishing 
institution  for  the  instruction  of  girls,  called  the  Oak  Hill 
Seminary. 

He  died  in  West  Haven,  of  typhus  fever,  after  an  illness 
of  about  a  month,  on  October  23,  1852,  in  his  38th  year, 
leaving  one  son. 

His  widow  next  married,  in  1858,  the  Rev.  Jason  At  water 
(Yale  1825),  of  West  Haven,  who  died  in  April,  i860,  and 
long  survived  him. 

CLASS  OF    184 1 

William  Wynn  Arnold,  the  youngest  son  of  William 
Wynn  and  Bonita  (Milner)  Arnold,  of  Oglethorpe  County, 
Georgia,  was  born  on  September  3,  1820.  His  father  died 
in  his  infancy,  and  before  he  came  to  College  his  mother 
had  married  Eliab  W.  Wells,  the  principal  of  a  school  in 
Zebulon,  Pike  County. 

He  studied  law  in  Lexington,  Oglethorpe  County,  with 
the  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Lumpkin  (Princeton  Coll.  1819),  and 
began  practice  in  December,  1842,  in  Zebulon.  He  was  also 
a  devoted  Baptist,  and  was  licensed  as  an  exhorter  in  1844. 

In  1853  he  was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature. He  took  his  seat  in  November,  was  placed  on  some 
important  committees,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  debate. 
His  health  had,  however,  been  undermined  by  overwork,  and 
when  attacked  with  pneumonia,  he  was  not  able  to  rally. 
He  returned  to  Zebulon,  and  died  there  on  November  25, 
in  his  34th  year. 

He  married,  on  November  2,  1843,  Juliana  Throop. 
daughter  of  Judge  James  and  Juliana  (Throop)  Eppinger, 


320  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

of  Pike  County,  who  survived  him  with  two  daughters  and 
a  son,  another  daughter  having  died  in  infancy. 

Ephraim  Tucker  Barstow,  son  of  Jedidiah  and  Cynthia 
(Tucker)  Barstow,  of  Jewett  City,  in  Griswold,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  on  September  12,  1814.  In  his  boyhood  his 
father  removed  to  East  Hampton,  in  the  town  of  Chatham, 

For  a  part  of  the  year  after  graduation  he  was  a  student 
in  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City.  Sub- 
sequently, in  1844,  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  in 
Rochester,  New  York,  where  he  died,  on  May  21,  1845,  ^^ 
his  31st  year. 

Jacob  Weber  Bellinger,  son  of  Colonel  Frederick  P. 
and  Marie  B.  (Weber)  Bellinger,  of  Herkimer,  New  York, 
was  born  on  July  30,  182 1.  A  brother  was  graduated  in 
1846. 

During  the  year  after  graduation  he  studied  law  with 
Judge  Hiram  Denio,  of  Utica,  and  afterwards  with  the  Hon. 
Michael  Hoffman,  of  Herkimer.  But  during  a  revival  of 
religion  in  Herkimer,  in  which  he  took  deep  interest,  he 
determined  to  become  a  minister.  Accordingly,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1844,  he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church,  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  taken  suddenly  ill  on  October  14,  and  died  four 
days  later,  in  his  24th  year. 

David  Burt  Colton,  the  youngest  child  of  Jacob  and 
Cynthia  (Chandler)  Colton,  of  Longmeadow,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  on  June  20,  1821. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Theological  Institute  of 
Connecticut,  in  East  Windsor,  where  he  remained  for  two 
years,  and  then  took  a  third  year  in  the  Andover  Seminary. 

From  1848  to  1851  he  taught  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey., 
He  was  afterwards  for  a  while  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
Springfield  Republican,  and  also  taught  in  Longmeadow. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 84 1  32  I 

His  later  years  were  characterized  by  a  morbid  reserve,  at 
times  perhaps  amounting  to  mental  derangement,  which  led 
him  to  shun  all  society. 

He  died  suddenly,  from  apoplexy,  in  Longmeadow,  on 
September  i6,  1853,  in  his  33d  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Augustus  Canfield  Gillett,  son  of  Augustus  Canfield 
and  Harriet  Grant  (Toucey)  Gillett,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  on  May  18,  1822.  His  father,  of  American  birth, 
but  engaged  in  business  in  Birmingham,  England,  died 
before  the  son  entered  College. 

He  studied  law  for  three  years  with  Hugh  Maxwell 
(Columbia  Coll.  1808),  of  New  York,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  on  November  i,  1844.  In  1845  he  went  to  Florida, 
and  afterwards  established  himself  at  Jacksonville,  as  a  law- 
yer and  as  editor  of  The  News.  On  February  14,  1846,  he 
married,  in  St.  Augustine,  Mary  Louisa,  daughter  of  Miguel 
Papy,  of  Spanish  descent. 

Later  he  obtained  an  appointment  as  clerk  in  the  Census 
Bureau  in  Washington,  and  as  translator  in  the  State 
Department  from  1853. 

He  died  in  Washington,  in  consequence  of  a  fall,  on 
February  7,  1856,  in  his  34th  year,  leaving  three  sons.  His 
widow  married,  in  i860,  Albert  A.  Boschke,  of  the  United 
States  Coast  Survey,  and  died  about  1866. 

Frederic  Hall,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Pryor)  Hall, 
of  that  part  of  Chatham  which  is  now  Portland.  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  February  12,  1821. 

He  was  a  member  for  years,  and  until  his  death,  of  the 
firm  of  Brainard  &  Co.,  engaged  in  operating  an  extensive 
sandstone  quarry  in  Portland,  with  his  residence  in 
Middletown. 

He  married,  on  August  6,  1844,  Eliza  Amelia,  fourth 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Harriet  (Hayes)  Trowbridge,  of 
New  Haven,  who  died  on  August  7,  1852,  at  the  age  of 


322  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

30.  He  next  married,  on  September  29,  1853,  her  youngest 
sister,  Ellen  Maria,  who  died  on  February  9,  1855,  aged 
23^  years.  He  married,  thirdly,  on  May  13,  1857,  Mary 
Webster,  eldest  child  of  Henry  Trowbridge,  Junior,  and 
Mary  Webster  (Southgate)  Trowbridge,  of  New  Haven, 
and  a  niece  of  his  former  wives. 

He  died  in  Middletown,  on  September  i,  1857,  in  his 
37th  year.  His  children  were  two  daughters  by  his  first 
marriage,  one  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

His  widow  married,  in  February,  i860,  Silas  Enos  Bur- 
rows, of  New  Haven,  and  is  still  living. 

John  Dale  Powell,  son  of  James  Powell,  a  prominent 
Democratic  politician  of  the  eastern  shore  of  Maryland, 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  Wicomico  County,  on  April  24,  18 19. 
and  entered  College  from  Snowhill,  Worcester  County,  at 
the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Harvard 
University,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
August,  1843. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  May  i,  1843,  ^'^^  practiced 
for  two  years  in  Snowhill.  In  the  fall  of  1845  l^e  joined 
his  brother,  Samuel  J.  Powell,  in  practice  in  St.  Francisville, 
Louisiana,  with  promising  hopes  of  success.  But  in 
December,  1849,  he  was  attacked  with  a  slight  hemorrhage, 
and  gradually  declined  from  that  time  until  his  death,  on 
December  2,  1850,  in  his  32d  year. 

He  married,  on  November  2,  1847,  Sarah  M.,  daughter 
of  Stephen  W.  and  Martha  (Horsey)  Ennis,  of  Worcester 
County,  Maryland,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  who  died 
unmarried.  His  widow  married,  in  December,  1854,  Little- 
ton J.  Sturgis,  of  Berlin,  Worcester  County. 

Pom  PEG  AscENgo  deSa,  son  of  Felipe  Antonio  and  Rita 
Francisca  deSa,  of  Alcantara,  in  the  Province  of  Maranhao, 
Brazil,  was  born  on  April  20,  1818. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS    OF    1 84 1  323 

He  settled  on  his  ancestral  estate,  engaged  in  the  culti- 
vation of  sugar-cane  and  the  raising  of  cattle.  In  1848, 
and  again  in  1866,  he  was  a  Liberal  member  of  the  Repre- 
sentative House  of  his  native  Province. 

He  died  on  July  18,  1879,  in  his  626.  year. 

He  married,  on  December  30,  1849,  his  cousin,  Maria 
Raymunda  Costa  Ferreira,  who  died  on  July  14,  1859,  at  the 
age  of  39.  On  December  8,  1862,  he  married  her  sister, 
Rosa  Loduina.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  one  daughter,  and 
by  his  second  wife  one  son. 

Henry  Sargent,  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Denny) 
Sargent,  of  Leicester,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 7,  182 1.  His  father  died  in  1829.  A  sister  married 
Dr.  Alfred  Lambert  (Yale  1843). 

Besides  private  study  with  his  brother.  Dr.  Joseph  Sar- 
gent (Harvard  1834),  in  Worcester,  he  attended  a  course 
of  medical  lectures  in  Boston  in  1841-42,  a  second  course  in 
Philadelphia  in  1842-43,  and  a  third  in  Boston  in  1843-44. 
In  the  spring  of  1844,  his  life  was  endangered  by  a  wound 
received  in  dissecting,  from  which  in  fact  he  never  fully 
recovered. 

After  long  disablement,  he  spent  eighteen  months  in  study 
in  Paris,  and  six  months  in  European  travel.  Returning, 
he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Harvard  in  1847,  ^^^ 
began  practice  in  Worcester. 

He  married,  on  April  30,  1849,  Catharine  Dean,  the 
youngest  child  of  Asa  and  Mary  (Hammond)  Whitney,  of 
Cambridge,  and  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  his  brother  Joseph. 
She  died,  of  dysentery,  on  September  9,  1849,  i"  her  25th 
year. 

In  July,  185 1,  the  state  of  his  health  obliged  him  to  be 
absent  in  Europe  until  the  following  spring.  After  another 
trial  of  his  powers,  he  decided  that  he  was  not  strong 
enough  to  carry  on  general  practice;  and  in  September, 
1853,    he    sailed    again    for    Europe,    to    prepare    himself 


324  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

especially  for  work  as  an  oculist  and  aurist.  After  his 
return,  he  practiced  mainly  in  these  specialties  from  April, 
1854,  to  November,  1857,  when  he  was  prostrated  by  an 
attack  of  pleurisy,  accompanied  with  symptoms  of  Bright's 
disease.  After  five  months'  confinement,  he  died  in  Worces- 
ter, on  April  27,  1858,  in  his  37th  year.  He  was  buried 
beside  his  wife  in  Mount  Auburn. 

He  was  uncommonly  beloved  as  a  physician  and  as  a 
man. 

James  Monroe  Smith,  the  fifth  son  of  Russell  and  Lydia 
(Wright)  Smith,  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
December  15,  1817.  His  father  died  in  January,  1828,  and 
he  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  Pleasanthill, 
Dallas  County,  Alabama.  In  the  winter  of  1842-43  he 
attended  medical  lectures  in  Philadelphia,  and  after  a  sec- 
ond course  at  the  Castleton  (Vermont)  Medical  College  in 
the  spring  of  1843,  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from 
that  institution. 

He  then  began  practice  in  Jewett  City,  in  the  township  of 
Griswold,  Connecticut.  In  1844  he  went  to  the  Hawaiian 
Islands  as  physician  to  the  Marine  Hospital  in  Lahaina ;  but 
returned  to  the  United  States  before  July,  1846,  and  for 
about  two  years  practiced  in  Plaquemine,  Louisiana,  on  the 
Mississippi  River,  about  ten  miles  south  of  Baton  Rouge. 

In  1849  he  went  to  California,  but  returned  to  Plaquemine 
in  1852.  His  relatives  received  letters  from  him  for  about 
a  year  longer,  when  all  knowledge  of  him  ceased.  It  is 
supposed  that  he  died  of  yellow  fever,  probably  in  1853. 


CLASS  OF    1842 

Joseph  Henry  Alter  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  Sep- 
tember 4,  1820,  and  entered  Yale  in  1839.  His  family 
were  of  Swiss  origin. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 842  325 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  served  as  secretary 
to  Captain  LaValette,  of  the  United  States  Navy,  in  Pen- 
sacola,  Florida. 

He  had  intended  to  study  medicine;  but  was  induced,  in 
the  fall  of  1844,  to  join  his  father  in  business  in  Baltimore, 
as  a  wholesale  merchant. 

On  April  2^,  1846,  he  married  Harriet  J.  Smith,  of  New 
Haven,  and  settled  in  Tuscarora,  Schuylkill  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business  until 
the  summer  of  1852. 

He  then  spent  several  months  in  the  study  of  analytical 
chemistry  at  Yale,  and  in  the  spring  of  1853  began  business 
in  New  York  City  as  a  custom-house  broker ;  but  his  health 
failed  in  August,  and  rest  and  travel  brought  no  improve- 
ment. In  March,  1854,  he  came  to  New  Haven,  and  died 
here,  at  the  house  of  a  brother-in-law,  from  pulmonary  con- 
sumption, on  April  13,  in  his  34th  year.  , 

His  widow  died  in  New  Haven  on  August  8,  1865.  after 
a  long  illness,  in  her  39th  year. 

Their  children  were  two  sons.  The  elder  died  in  infancy, 
and  the  younger  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1875.  but  died 
unmarried. 

Edward  Law  Baldwin,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Hon. 
Roger  Sherman  Baldwin  (Yale  181 1),  was  born  in  New 
Haven  on  October  i,  1822. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  fin- 
ished the  two  years'  course.  In  the  mean  time  he  also 
studied  in  his  father's  office. 

When  his  father  became  Governor  of  the  State,  in  May, 
1844,  he  was  appointed  Executive  Secretary,  and  held  the 
position  during  the  two  years  of  his  father's  service. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  June.  18.^, 
and  to  that  of  New  York  in  1846. 

In  the  latter  year  he  began  practice  with  the  most  flat- 
tering prospects  in  New  York  City:    but  assiduous  study 


326  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

had  weakened  his  constitution,  and  an  attack  of  bleeding 
at  the  lungs  in  November,  1846,  obliged  him  to  cease  work. 
He  then  visited  Southern  Europe,  and  on  his  return  in  July, 
1847,  spent  some  months  at  a  water-cure  establishment  in 
Northampton,  Massachusetts. 

In  December,  1847,  when  his  father  went  to  Washington 
as  United  States  Senator,  he  felt  strong  enough  to  go  to 
New  Haven,  with  the  view  of  taking  charge  of  his  father's 
business.  The  effort  proved  too  great,  and  another  hem- 
orrhage in  February,  1848,  drove  him  back  to  Northampton. 
He  declined  gradually,  and  died  there  on  July  6,  in  his 
26th  year. 

Allen  Bangs,  the  second  son  of  Allen  and  Polly  (Bangs) 
Bangs,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  July  26, 
1819,  and  had  spent  a  year  in  Amherst  College  (1837-38) 
before  joining  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  studied  law.  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  March, 
1845.  He  then  practiced  his  profession  in  Springfield  for 
about  three  years,  but  was  obliged  to  relinquish  it,  by  the 
failure  of  his  health,  in  the  summer  of  1848.  In  1849,  being 
advised  by  his  physician  to  travel,  he  accepted  an  agency 
from  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  publishers  of  law-books  in  Bos- 
ton; and  remained  in  their  employ  for  about  three  years 
with  gratifying  success. 

He  was  planning  to  go  to  Europe  in  the  spring  of  1853, 
for  a  stay  of  two  years ;  but  a  severe  attack  of  influenza  in 
January  of  that  year  terminated  in  consumption,  under 
which  he  sank  rapidly  and  died  in  Springfield  on  the  morn- 
ing of  Thanksgiving  Day,  November  24,  1853,  in  his  35th 
year.     He  was  never  married. 

Gideon  Bingham,  the  eldest  child  of  Roger  and  Nancy 
Bingham,  of  Windham,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  Septem- 
ber 20,   1815.      His  father  was  a  preaching  Elder  of  the 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1842  327 

Christian  denomination,  and  his  mother  a  sister  of  Samuel 
Waldo,  well  known  as  a  portrait  painter. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  went  to  the  Mississippi  valley 
and  other  parts  of  the  South,  as  a  canvasser  for  the  sale  of 
law  books,  spending  the  winter  months  in  this  manner,  and 
the  summers  at  his  home  in  Windham. 

In  1850  on  a  trip  up  the  Red  River  he  caught  a  severe 
cold  which  settled  on  his  lungs.  He  was  thus  detained  at 
the  South  later  than  usual,  and  reached  his  home  in  very 
feeble  health.  He  sailed,  however,  for  New  Orleans  on 
November  4,  in  the  hope  that  a  sea  voyage  might  benefit 
him.  But  after  arriving  in  New  Orleans  a  relapse  occurred, 
and  he  sank  rapidly  until  his  death,  from  consumption,  on 
December  13,  in  his  36th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Robert  Coleman  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  July  16, 
1823.     A  sister  married  his  classmate  Parker. 

He  spent  two  years  in  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  August,  1844. 
He  then  returned  to  Philadelphia,  and  after  his  admission  to 
the  bar  spent  two  years  in  European  travel. 

From  1846  to  1853  he  was  engaged  in  business,  in  part 
in  the  development  of  iron  works  and  mining  property  which 
he  had  inherited  in  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  part  as  a 
general  dealer  in  iron  in  Philadelphia. 

At  the  end  of  1853  he  closed  up  his  business  connection 
and  went  abroad,  intending  to  return  shortly,  but  in  fact 
he  remained  in  Paris  permanently,  marrying  a  French  lady, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons. 

He  died  in  Paris,  on  August  2,  1878,  m  his  56th  year. 

Newton  Edwards,  third  son  of  the  Rev.  Ur.  Justin 
Edwards  (Williams  Coll.  1810)  and  Lydia  (Bigelow) 
Edwards,  of  Andover,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  March 
II,  1822.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1840. 


328  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  Studied  law  in  Boston  until  1844,  and  then  taught  for 
two  years  in  the  Female  Academy  in  Augusta,  Maine.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  August,  1846. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Boston  in  1846, 
and  was  married  on  August  30,  1848,  to  Mary  Sawtelle, 
younger  daughter  of  Judge  Daniel  and  Mary  (Sawtelle) 
Williams,  of  Augusta. 

In  1850  he  removed  to  Augusta,  where  he  continued  in 
active  practice  until  his  death,  after  a  brief  and  distressing 
illness,  on  May  7,  1855,  in  his  34th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  son  (Trinity  Coll.  1877). 

Edward  Young  Gould,  son  of  Gurdon  C.  and  Catharine 
(Chapman)  Gould,  of  (East)  Granby,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  July  18,  1819.  His  mother  was  a  granddaughter  of 
the  Rev.  Benjamin  Chapman  (Princeton  Coll.  1754),  of 
Southington.  His  father  died  in  1836.  An  accident  in  his 
youth  resulted  in  lameness,  and  this  led  to  his  being  sent 
to  College. 

He  intended  to  become  a  minister,  but  was  employed  at 
graduation  to  teach  a  select  school  in  Southington,  in  which 
he  was  very  successful.  He  died  there,  from  inflammation 
of  the  bowels,  after  two  days'  illness,  on  April  3,  1843,  in 
his  24th  year.     This  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 

William  Davison  Hennen,  a  son  of  Alfred  Hennen 
(Yale  1806),  of  New  Orleans,  was  born  on  March  25,  1823. 
He  was  a  brilliant  scholar,  and  had  already  been  assigned  the 
Valedictory  Oration,  when  he  was  removed  from  College 
in  August,  1842.  In  1880  he  was  admitted  to  a  degree.  A 
brother  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1829  at  Yale,  and 
was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1830. 

He  studied  law  and  attained  an  eminent  position  at  the 
bar  of  New  Orleans  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War. 
During  the  war  he  was  chief  of  staflf  to  General  Simon  B. 
Buckner,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and  after  the  peace  he 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1842  329 

settled  in  practice  in  New  York  City,  where  he  died,  from 
pneumonia,  on  May  i6,  1883,  in  his  61  st  year. 
He  married  about  1875,  and  had  three  children. 

Jesse  Alexander  Higginbotham,  younger  son  of  Dr. 
Reuben  Higginbotham,  a  native  of  Amherst  County,  Vir- 
ginia, who  settled  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  was  born  on 
January  29,  1822.  His  mother  was  a  Miss  Vaughan,  of  the 
vicinity  of  Nashville.  Both  his  parents  died  early,  and  he 
was  left  to  the  care  of  an  uncle,  of  Nelson  County,  Virginia. 
He  entered  Yale  in  1839. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  settled  in  practice  in  Amherst,  the  county  seat  of 
Amherst  County. 

He  married,  in  1848,  Elvira  McClelland,  second  daughter 
of  John  Henry,  and  granddaughter  of  Patrick  Henry. 

In  the  following  winter  he  went  to  the  West  Indies  for  his 
health,  but  died  soon  after  his  return,  in  the  early  summer 
of  1849,  in  his  28th  year.     He  left  no  children. 

His  widow  next  married  Alexander  F.  Taylor,  of  Rich- 
mond, and  died  in  December,  1874. 

Porter  LeConte,  the  youngest  son  of  Peter  LeConte 
(Princeton  Coll.  1797)  and  Jerusha  (Bishop)  LeConte,  of 
Ovid,  Seneca  County,  New  York,  was  born  on  February 
27,  1817.  His  father,  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Jedidiah  Chapman 
(Yale  1762),  who  assumed  his  mother's  surname,  died  in 
September,  1836. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where 
he  remained  for  three  years,  being  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
New  Haven  West  Association  on  August  6,  1844. 

During  the  winter  of  1845-46  he  had  charge  of  a  boys' 
school  in  Napanoch,  Ulster  County,  New  York ;  but  in  the 
early  spring  of  1846  he  was  seized  with  a  hemorrhage  of 
the  lungs,  and  obliged  to  abandon  all  his  plans. 


S3<^  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

On  September  2^,  1846,  he  was  married  to  A.  Anna, 
second  daughter  of  David  Brooks,  of  Cheshire,  Connecticut, 
and  in  the  ensuing  January  they  went  South. 

While  in  Southern  Virginia  he  was  urgently  solicited  to 
take  charge  of  the  Female  Seminary  in  Clarksville,  on  the 
Roanoke  River,  and  he  reluctantly  consented,  though  mis- 
trusting the  climate.  A  few  weeks  later  he  was  seized  with 
a  fever,  and  died  after  an  illness  of  twenty  days,  on  August 
16,  1847,  aged  30>^  years. 

Mrs.  LeConte  married,  in  April,  1859,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Daniel 
March  (Yale  1840),  and  died  in  April,  1879. 

Charles  Long,  son  of  Hugh  and  Mary  (McNair)  Long, 
of  Hartsville,  in  Warwick  Township,  Bucks  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  on  March  11,  1818,  in  the  adjoining 
township  of  Warminster,  and  entered  Yale  in  1839. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Reading,  and 
then  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  At  the  end  of  his 
second  year,  he  accepted  a  tutorship  in  the  College,  but 
served  for  one  year  only,  resigning  in  1847  to  become  Pro- 
fessor of  Greek  and  Latin  in  Delaware  College,  in  Newark, 
Delaware. 

In  March,  1850,  he  resigned  his  professorship  to  establish 
"The  Tennent  School,"  a  boarding-school  for  boys  near 
Hartsville,  in  connection  with  his  older  brother,  the  Rev. 
Mahlon  Long  (Princeton  Coll.  1839).  As  a  teacher  he  was 
very  successful;  but  in  the  fall  of  1855  consumptive  symp- 
toms appeared,  and  his  death  followed,  in  Hartsville,  on  July 
15,  1856,  in  his  39th  year. 

He  married,  on  December  21,  1848,  Martha,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  of  Newark,  Delaware,  who  sur- 
vived him  without  children. 

Charles  Collins  Parker  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on 
August  3,  1823,  and  entered  Yale  in  1839. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 842  33 1 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  studied  medicine  in 
Philadelphia,  and  then  went  abroad  to  continue  his  studies 
in  Paris.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  in  April,  1846,  and  began  i)ractice  in 
Philadelphia,  with  every  promise  of  success. 

On  September  30,  1847,  he  was  married  to  Anna  Coleman, 
of  Philadelphia,  the  sister  of  a  classmate. 

In  the  fall  of  1848,  during  a  business  trip  in  the  West, 
he  caught  a  severe  cold,  and  was  prostrated  on  his  return 
with  congestion  of  the  lungs.  After  a  few  weeks  of  severe 
illness,  he  died  on  December  29,  in  his  26th  year. 

He  left  one  daughter.  His  widow  married,  some  years 
later,  Dr.  Peace,  of  Philadelphia. 

Jacob  Perkins,  the  fifth  son  of  General  Simon  and  Nancy 
Ann  (Bishop)  Perkins,  of  Warren,  Trumbull  County,  Ohio, 
and  a  brother  of  Alfred  Perkins  (Yale  1833),  was  born  on 
September  i,  1821.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of 
1841,  and  left  College  on  account  of  ill  health  at  the  end 
of  Junior  year,  returning  a  year  later. 

His  father  was  an  extensive  land  owner  and  land  agent, 
and  he  found  abundant  occupation  in  this  business,  and  on 
his  father's  death,  in  November  1844,  in  the  settlement  of 
his  estate. 

He  married,  on  October  24,  1850,  Elizabeth  Owen,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Jonathan  Ingersoll  Tod,  of  Milton,  Mahoning 
County,  and  granddaughter  of  Judge   George  Tod    (Yale 

1795)- 

He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention 

of  1850-51,  and  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  very 

actively  interested  in  the  Cleveland  and  Mahoning  Railroad 

Company,  of  which  he  was  President  from  1853. 

In  the  fall  of  1856  he  removed  to  Cleveland.  In  that  year 
he  was  also  one  of  the  Presidential  Electors  (for  Fremont). 

His  wife  died  of  quick  consumption  on  June  4,  1857,  in 
her  26th  year,  and  he  was  soon  prostrated  by  the  same 


332  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

disease,  which  had  long  been  fastened  upon  him,  and  was 
aggravated  by  his  incessant  labors.  He  went  South  for 
the  next  two  winters,  and  died  in  Havana,  Cuba,  on  January 
12,  1859,  in  his  38th  year. 

His  children  were  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  only 
one  son  (Williams  Coll.  1877)  survived  him. 

Steuben  Rexford,  son  of  John  and  Ursula  (Hitchcock) 
Rexford,  of  Barkhamsted,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  August 
2,  1816. 

He  taught  in  Norfolk,  Virginia,  for  a  year  or  two  after 
graduation,  in  the  meantime  also  studying  law,  and  thus 
securing  admission  to  the  bar. 

He  then  returned  to  the  North,  and  continued  his  law 
studies  in  the  office  of  his  cousin,  Benjamin  F.  Rexford 
(Union  Coll.  1830),  in  Norwich,  Chenango  County,  New 
York.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  there,  he  remained  in 
Norwich  for  about  eighteen  months,  and  then  removed  to 
Syracuse,  where  his  success  was  both  rapid  and  brilliant. 

He  married,  on  February  28,  1849,  Elizabeth  Rebecca 
Cooley,  of  (West)  Granville,  Massachusetts. 

While  on  a  visit  with  his  wife  to  her  former  home,  he 
died  of  typhoid  fever,  after  an  illness  of  about  four  weeks, 
on  September  19,  1850,  in  his  35th  year.    He  left  no  children. 

William  Willshire  Robinson,  of  Sherburne,  Chenango 
County,  New  York,  was  born  on  November  11,  181 8. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  the  Principal  of 
the  Academy  in  Norwich,  in  his  native  county;  and  he  then 
entered  the  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  where  he  com- 
pleted the  three  years'  course. 

He  was  married,  on  September  16,  1847,  to  Frances 
(Fanny),  second  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Fanny  (Osborne) 
Robbins,  of  Camillus,  and  sister  of  Dr.  Samuel  Robbing 
(Yale  1846). 

In  the  fall  of  1847  he  spent  a  few  months  as  a  resident 
licentiate  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  then 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 842  333 

called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Penn  Yan,  New  York,  where  he  was  ordained  and  installed 
on  January  27,  1848.  He  had  already  shown  himself  a 
preacher  of  ability,  and  a  man  of  an  unusually  kindly  and 
winsome  personality,  when  he  died  suddenly,  from  typhoid 
fever,  after  a  fortnight's  illness,  on  November  14,  1850,  at 
the  age  of  32. 

Two.  daughters  survived  him.  His  widow  died  in  New 
York  City  on  March  26,  1886,  in  her  66th  year.  The 
younger  daughter  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  William  W. 
McLane,  Ph.D.  (Yale  1889). 

AsHER  Miner  Stout,  son  of  Dr.  Abraham  and  Anna 
Maria  (Miner)  Stout,  of  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  was 
born  on  September  30,  1822. 

In  January,  1843,  he  entered  the  office  of  Chester  Butler, 
in  Wilkesbarre,  as  a  law  student,  and  he  was  admitted  to 
the  Luzerne  County  bar  on  August  4,  1845. 

He  immediately  began  practice  in  Wilkesbarre,  and  mar- 
ried, on  January  31,  1849,  Ellen  C,  daughter  of  the  late 
Cyrus  Gildersleeve  (Rutgers  Coll.  1789)  and  Frances  Caro- 
line (Wilkinson,  Kennedy)  Gildersleeve,  of  Wilkesbarre. 

He  prospered  in  his  business  until  the  failure  of  his  health, 
from  disease  of  the  spine,  in  1855.  After  eighteen  months' 
severe  suffering,  he  partially  recovered,  but  died,  from 
paralysis,  at  Phillipsburg,  New  Jersey,  on  April  24.  i860, 
in  his  38th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Bethlehem. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  daughter  and  one  son 
(Trinity  Coll.  1870). 

Jared  Reid  Swift,  son  of  Nathan* and  Charity  (Reid) 
Swift,  of  Colchester,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  August  5, 
1814,  and  entered  Yale  in  1839. 

After  graduation  he  spent  upwards  of  two  years  in  the 
Yale  Divinity  School,  and  then  went  to  Greenup  County, 
Kentucky,  to  visit  an  uncle,  for  the  sake  of  his  health. 


334  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  a  few  months'  trial,  he  decided  to  make  his  home 
in  that  State,  and  engaged  to  teach  in  Crab  Orchard,  Lincoln 
County,  and  also  to  preach  in  that  vicinity. 

He  married,  on  June  lo,  1847,  Susan  M.,  daughter  of 
John  Hansford,  of  Crab  Orchard.  Her  family  being  mem- 
bers of  the  "Christian"  denomination,  he  was  ordained  as  a 
minister  of  that  church.  In  the  fall  of  1847  he  accepted 
a  professorship  in  the  Western  Military  Institute,  at  George- 
town, where  he  remained  for  two  years.  In  the  meantime 
he  preached  statedly  in  Georgetown  and  in  Lexington. 

Early  in  1850,  while  on  a  visit  at  his  wife's  father's,  he 
was  attacked  with  pneumonia,  which  became  fixed  upon  his 
lungs,  causing  his  death,  in  Crab  Orchard,  on  May  15,  in 
his  36th  year. 

His  only  child  died  in  infancy.  His  widow  married 
again. 

James  Mitchell  Thacher,  son  of  Augustus  and  Eliza- 
beth Mary  Thacher,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  3,  1822,  and  was  named  for  his  maternal 
grandfather. 

He  taught  for  several  years  in  Alabama  and  in  Maryland, 
and  then  studied  medicine  in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College 
of  Philadelphia,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1849. 

He  then  began  practice  in  Philadelphia,  but  was  arrested 
by  failing  health  in  the  spring  of  1853.  He  returned  to  New 
Haven,  and  after  two  months  of  gradual  decline,  he  died  at 
the  house  of  his  uncle,  Professor  Thomas  A.  Thacher  (Yale 
1835),  on  June  8,  in  his  31st  year. 

CLASS  OF    1843 

Samuel  Worcester  Andrew,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Rogers  Andrew  (Yale  1807),  of  Woodbury,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  June  8,  1822. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1843  335 

He  Studied  law  with  John  Hooker  (Yale  1837),  of 
Farmington,  and  with  John  C.  Hollister  (Yale  1840),  of 
New  Haven,  and  in  1847  began  practice  in  New  Haven.  In 
the  meantime  he  had  been  on  one  or  two  voyages  as  a  com- 
mon sailor;  and  had  edited  for  a  few  months  the  New 
Haven  Daily  Herald. 

He  married,  on  January  4,  1848,  Fanny  Augusta,  daugh- 
ter of  General  Chauncey  and  Maria  (Bacon)  Crafts,  of 
Woodbury. 

He  died  in  the  City  Hospital  in  New  York,  on  December 
17,  1849,  i"  bis  28th  year,  having  been  accidentally  crushed 
between  two  railroad  cars.     He  was  buried  in  New  Haven. 

An  only  child  was  graduated  here  in  1871. 

His  widow  married,  in  February,  1854,  William  S.  Charn- 
ley,  of  New  Haven,  and  died  in  New  York  City  on  April 
22,  1907,  in  her  81  st  year. 

Julius  Adolphus  Baratte  was  born  in  St.  Mary's, 
Georgia,  on  July  9,  1823,  and  entered  Yale  during  Freshman 
year. 

He  studied  law  and  began  practice  in  St.  Mary's.  He 
was  appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  by  President  Pierce,  and 
held  office  until  his  death,  in  St.  Mary's,  on  November  2, 
1859,  in  his  37th  year. 

He  married  Cora  Dufour,  w^io  survived  him.  with  three 
children. 

James  Perrine  Cutler,  the  eldest  son  of  General  Joseph 
Cutler,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  was  born  on  October 
24,  1823. 

He  studied  law  in  Morristown  for  two  years  after  gradua- 
tion, and  then  entered  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York,  where  he  completed  the  course  in  August,  1848. 
and  was  licensed  to  preach. 

He  had  resolved  to  become  a  foreign  missionary,  but  had 
only  preached  for  a  few  weeks  when  symptoms  of  insanity 


336  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

appeared,  and  he  was  taken  to  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum 
in  Trenton,  where  he  died  on  September  25,  1851,  in  his 
28th  year. 

James  Bogardus  Donnelly,  the  eldest  child  of  John  M. 
and  Jeanette  (Bogardus)  Donnelly,  of  Catskill,  New  York, 
was  born  on  February  11,  1824.  His  Freshman  year  was 
spent  at  Williams  College. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  General  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York,  but  left  in  1845  ^"^  completed  his 
studies  privately  under  the  care  of  the  Rev,  Dr.  Samuel 
Seabury,  of  New  York. 

In  1847  he  removed  to  North  Carolina,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Ives  on  March  4, 
1848. 

In  1848  he  became  Rector  of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  Hills- 
boro,  where  he  remained,  greatly  respected,  until  his  death, 
after  a  brief  illness,  on  October  31,  1855,  in  his  32d  year. 
He  was  never  married. 

Charles  Nicolas  Cachet,  of  Lumpkin,  Stewart  County, 
Georgia,  was  born  on  July  2,  1822,  and  entered  Yale  during 
Sophomore  year. 

He  married  early,  and  settled  on  a  plantation  in  his  native 
county,  while  pursuing  his  profession  as  a  lawyer. 

He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  service,  and  died  in 
Tullahoma,  Tennessee,  on  April  14,  1863,  in  his  41st  year. 

James  Burnet  Gibbs,  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Lock- 
wood)  Gibbs,  of  Norwalk,  Ohio,  was  born  on  May  21,  1822. 
His  father  removed  from  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  in  1815, 
and  died  a  few  months  after  his  son  entered  Yale. 

He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1844,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Association  on 
August  13,  1845.  He  remained  at  the  School  for  another 
year,  during  much  of  which  he  was  watching  anxiously  at 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1843  337 

the  bedside  of  the  young  lady  to  whom  he  was  engaged  to 
be  married  (Tirzah  M.,  daughter  of  Cyrus  Wilhams),  who 
died  in  New  Haven  from  consumption  in  August,  1847. 

He  then  returned  to  his  home,  preached  a  few  times,  and 
settled  in  Hudson,  Ohio,  for  further  theological  study,  but 
was  prostrated  in  a  few  weeks  by  the  development  of 
consumption. 

In  September,  1848,  he  went  South,  but  not  making  per- 
manent improvement,  he  returned  in  May,  1849,  to  his 
mother's  house,  where  he  died  on  August  3,  1850,  in  his 
29th  year. 

JosiAH  ToRREY  KiNG,  youngcr  son  of  Deacon  Joshua  and 
Hannah  King,  of  Abington,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
July  21,  1819,  and  was  named  for  his  maternal  grandfather. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary, whence  he  removed  a  year  later  to  the  Yale  Divinity 
School,  where  he  finished  the  course  in  1846.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  in  1846  by  the  Hartford  Central  Associa- 
tion, and  went  in  June,  1847,  to  Home  Missionary  work  in 
String  Prairie,  Greene  County,  southwestern  Illinois. 

The  climate  affected  his  health  so  unfavorably  tbat  he 
was  obliged  to  return  to  New  Haven  late  in  1848;  but  in 
April,  1849,  he  was  able  to  begin  to  supply  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  East  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont. 

In  August,  1849,  he  visited  his  native  town,  and  was 
detained  by  the  illness  (from  dysentery)  of  his  father,  who 
died  on  September  5.  He  was  then  prostrated  by  the  same 
disease,  and  died  there  on  October  7,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  was  to  have  been  married  in  a  few  weeks. 

Thomas  Hudson  Moody  was  born  in  Morgan  County, 
Georgia,  on  May  12,  1822. 

For  a  while  after  graduation  he  was  employed  as  a  travel- 
ing agent  for  the  collection  of  debts  due  to  his  father, 
who  had  failed  in  business. 


338  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  is  said  to  have  married  a  Texan  lady  in  1845,  ^^^  to 
have  served  through  the  war  with  Mexico. 

He  is  reported  to  have  fallen  in  a  duel  about  1856. 

Edward  Munro,  of  Elbridge,  Onondaga  County,  New 
York,  was  born  in  1823.  His  health  was  not  good  during 
his  College  life. 

After  graduation  he  attempted  to  study  for  the  ministry, 
but  the  condition  of  his  health  obliged  him  to  abandon  this 
design,  and  for  five  years  he  was  mainly  occupied  in 
traveling. 

He  then  settled  in  Syracuse;  but  in  the  fall  of  185 1  his 
health  again  gave  way,  and  in  search  of  a  more  genial 
climate  he  went  to  St.  Augustine,  Florida,  where  he  died 
in  December,  1851,  in  his  29th  year.     He  was  not  married. 

John  Frederick  Nourse,  son  of  Captain  Stephen  and 
Martha  (Prince)  Nourse,  of  Beverly,  Massachusetts,  was 
born  on  November  24,  1820. 

After  graduation  he  had  charge  of  the  Academy  in 
Beverly,  until  his  removal  to  Boston  in  1845  to  take  charge 
of  the  Endicott  School. 

He  remained  in  that  school  until  it  was  discontinued, 
when  he  became  the  Principal  of  the  Chapman  School  in 
East  Boston,  where  he  continued  until  his  sudden  death, 
from  the  effects  of  overwork  and  exposure,  on  January  17, 
1854,  in  his  34th  year. 

He  was  married,  on  November  10,  1845,  to  Annie  Thorn- 
dike,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Asa  Rand  (Dartmouth  Coll. 
1806)  and  Clarissa  (Thorndike)  Rand,  of  Peterboro,  Mad- 
ison County,  New  York.     Their  children  were  three  sons. 

William  Stedman  Peck  was  born  in  Greensboro,  Ala- 
bama, on  December  29,  1822,  and  was  sent  North  for  his 
education  in  his  9th  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 843  339 

After  graduation  he  remained  at  home  for  a  year,  and 
then  entered  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York, 
but  was  called  home  in  1846  by  his  father's  death. 

On  June  25,  1848,  he  was  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Tuscaloosa  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Livingston,  Sumter  County.  A  year  later  he  was 
attacked  with  a  bronchial  trouble,  which  developed  speedily 
into  consumption.  In  the  hope  of  relief  he  spent  some  time 
at  St.  Clair  Springs,  in  East  Tennessee,  but  without  perma- 
nent benefit.  On  the  way  home,  he  died  without  warning 
in  an  inn  in  Rome,  Georgia,  on  September  10,  1849,  '" 
his  27th  year. 

He  was  not  married. 

John  Hunter  Robb,  son  of  Charles  and  Rebecca 
(Hunter)  Robb,  of  Philadelphia,  was  born  on  February  12. 
1822.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1844. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1845,  when  he  began  practice. 

He  died  in  Philadelphia  on  October  7,  1864,  in  his  43d 
year. 

He  married  Ellen  Jane  Mullen,  of  Philadelphia,  by  whom 
he  had  three  daughters  and  three  sons. 

Samuel  Worcester  Strong,  the  youngest  son  of  the  Rev. 
William  Lightbourn  Strong  (Yale  1802),  of  Somers.  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  December  14,  182 1,  and  entered  Yale 
at  the  opening  of  the  Sophomore  year.  His  father  at  this 
date  had  just  retired  from  the  active  ministry,  and  was 
living  in  Auburn,  New  York,  whence  he  removed  to  Fay- 
etteville  the  next  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Mil  ford.  Connecticut,  for 
about  six  months,  and  then  had  charge  for  over  two  years 
of  the  Academy  in  Wilkesbarre.  Pennsylvania.  In  the  fall 
of  1846  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he 
finished  the  course  in  1849. 


34°  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  soon  after  began  preaching  to  the  Fourth  (or  Olivet) 
Congregational  Church  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  on  March  27, 
1850.  His  health  had  long  been  feeble,  and  he  was  obliged 
to  resign  his  charge  on  November  17,  1852,  and  to  his  great 
disappointment  to  retire  definitely  from  the  work  of  the 
ministry. 

After  a  short  period  of  travel  and  recreation  he  went 
through  a  brief  course  of  legal  study,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  where  his  eldest  brother 
(Yale  1828)  was  settled,  and  where  he  also  entered  on 
practice  and  made  rapid  progress  toward  success.  A  severe 
cold,  attended  by  typhoid  fever,  brought  his  life  to  an  end. 
in  Reading,  on  April  16,  1856,  in  his  35th  year. 

He  married,  on  December  7,  1854,  Abiah  Palmer,  young- 
est daughter  of  Deacon  Harvey  and  Mary  (Palmer)  Root, 
of  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  who  survived  him  with 
one  daughter. 

Franklin  Taylor  was  born  in  Westport,  Connecticut,  on 
March  6,  1823,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  the 
Sophomore  year.  While  in  College  he  united  with  the 
College  Church,  and  resolved  to  devote  himself  to  the  min- 
istry, as  a  foreign  missionary. 

After  graduation  he  was  the  Preceptor  of  an  Academy 
in  East  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  and  subsequently  taught 
in  Milford,  Connecticut,  but  was  obliged  to  stop  by  the 
failure  of  his  health.  He  then  undertook  to  begin  his  prepa- 
ration for  the  ministry,  but  was  soon  arrested  by  what 
proved  his  final  illness,  of  brain  fever,  from  which  he  died 
in  Westport,  on  November  5,  1844,  in  his  22d  year.  He 
was  unmarried. 

Ira  Day  Whittelsey,  the  third  son  of  Jared  Potter  and 
Lydia  G.  (Archer)  Whittelsey,  was  born  in  Catskill,  New 
York,  on  September  4,  1822.     His  father,  a  native  of  Wal- 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  (JF  1844  34 1 

lingford,  Connecticut,  was  a  wholesale  flour-merchant  in 
New  York  City,  but  was  residing  temporarily  in  Catskill 
during  the  prevalence  of  yellow  fever  in  New  York.  In 
1832  he  returned  permanently  to  Wallingford. 

He  studied  law  in  New  York  with  George  VV.  Strong 
(Yale  1803),  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  December,  1846, 
and  at  once  opened  an  office  there.  His  health  had,  how- 
ever, become  impaired,  and  in  January,  1847,  on  account 
of  consumptive  symptoms  he  went  on  a  voyage  to  Cuba. 
Returning  in  the  spring,  by  way  of  New  Orleans,  he  took 
a  sudden  cold  which  detained  him  there  for  some  weeks. 
He  reached  his  father's  house  in  Wallingford  on  June  3,  and 
sank  gradually  until  his  death,  on  June  24.  1849,  in  liis 
27th  year. 

CLASS   OF    1844 

Henry  Clay  Birdseye,  son  of  Victory  and  Electa 
(Beebe)  Birdseye,  of  Pompey,  Onondaga  County,  New 
York,  was  born  on  July  18,  1823.  His  father,  a  grandson 
of  the  Rev.  Nathan  Birdseye  (Yale  1736),  and  a  graduate 
of  Williams  College  (1804),  was  a  Member  of  Congress 
in  1 81 5-1 7  and  1841-43. 

He  taught  for  a  year  in  Milford,  Connecticut,  and  then 
began  the  study  of  law  with  his  father.  Shortly  after,  he 
removed  to  Albany,  where  he  continued  his  studies  with 
his  brother  (Yale  1841). 

In  January,  1847,  when  four  members  of  his  family  were 
prostrated  by  a  malignant  fever,  he  went  home  to  cheer 
the  sick  by  his  ministrations ;  but  contracted  the  disease,  and 
died  in  Albany,  a  few  weeks  after  his  return,  on  February 
18,  in  his  24th  year. 

Charles  William  Blixcoe.  son  of  Sampson  Blincoc,  a 
lawyer  of  Leesburg,  Loudoun  County,  \'irginia,  and  grand- 
son of  Thomas  Blincoe,  a  native  of  South  Wales,  was  born 
on  February  19,  1824.     His  mother  was  Martha,  daughter 


342  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

of  William  and  Sarah  (Edwards)  Jones.  Both  parents  died 
in  his  infancy,  and  he  entered  Yale  during  the  Sophomore 
year. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  F.  A.  Smith, 
of  Alexandria,  and  continued  it  with  Richard  Maxwell,  of 
Richmond.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  spring  of 
1846,  and  began  practice  in  Leesburg;  but  for  some  years 
his  time  was  much  absorbed  in  family  affairs. 

He  afterwards  resumed  practice  in  Alexandria,  but  died 
there,  of  typhoid  fever,  in  April,  1858,  in  his  35th  year. 

He  was  never  married. 

Henry  Byne,  son  of  George  Byne,  of  Augusta,  Georgia, 
and  grandson  of  Lewis  and  Mary  (Jordan)  Byne,  was  born 
on  January  8,  1825.  His  mother,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Maria  (Steptoe)  Byne,  w^as  her  husband's  first 
cousin.     He  entered  Yale  in  1842. 

He  studied  medicine,  but  inheriting  ample  means  did  not 
pursue  his  profession.  He  settled  on  a  large  plantation  on 
McBean  Creek,  about  fifteen  miles  south  of  Augusta,  in 
Burke  County,  where  he  lived  quietly. 

He  died  from  bleedings  at  the  lungs,  induced  by  a  fall, 
probably  in  1876. 

He  was  never  married. 

James  Linton  Cunningham,  the  eldest  son  of  Colonel 
Joseph  Hanna  and  Emily  Louisa  (Alford)  Cunningham,  of 
Fayetteville,  Georgia,  about  twenty  miles  south  of  Atlanta, 
was  born  on  September  19,  1824.  In  his  childhood  the  fam- 
ily removed  to  Oakbowery,  in  Chambers  County,  eastern 
Alabama.     He  entered  Yale  in  1842. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Tuskegee,  and  about  the 
close  of  1845  went  to  Columbus,  Georgia,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  began  practice. 

In  June,  1847,  he  established  himself  in  GriiTfin,  about 
twenty  miles  southeast  of  his  birthplace,  and  thence  removed 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 844  343 

to  Mansfield,  in  northwestern  Louisiana,  where  family 
friends  had  settled.  Here  he  opened  a  school,  while  still 
practicing-  at  the  bar. 

He  died  in  Mansfield,  after  a  week's  illness,  from  yellow 
fever,  on  October  2,  1853,  at  the  age  of  29.  He  was 
unmarried. 

OswiN  Hart  Doolittle,  the  eldest  child  of  Alfred  and 
Lois  (Dayton)  Doolittle,  of  Wallingford,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  December  7,  1818.  About  1835  the  family  removed 
to  North  Haven,  his  mother's  ancestral  home.  His  only 
brother  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  Medical  School  in 
1852. 

He  taught  school  for  a  time  in  North  Haven  and  South- 
ington,  and  had  begun  his  preparation  for  the  law,  when 
he  was  nominated  in  1847  ^Y  the  Democratic  party  and 
elected  as  a  Representative  in  the  General  Assembly.  Two 
years  later  he  was  again  elected,  and  during  this  session  he 
was  prominent  in  the  organization  of  the  State  Normal 
School,  of  w^hich  he  was  made  a  Trustee.  He  was  sent  a 
third  time  to  the  Legislature  in  1850,  and  subsequently  his 
health  was  broken  by  an  attack  of  the  measles.  In  this  con- 
dition he  contracted  a  cold  while  absent  from  home  on 
business  concerning  the  Normal  School,  and  he  died  of 
lung  fever  in  North  Haven,  on  July  11,  1851,  in  his  33d 
year.     He  was  never  married. 

His  name  is  perpetuated  in  the  name  of  a  nephew.  Judge 
O.  H.  D.  Fowler,  Ph.B.  (Yale  1878). 

He  was  about  to  be  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the  time  of 
his  death. 

William  Horace  Elliot.  Junior,  the  youngest  of  eight 
children  of  William  Horace  and  Mary  (Law)  Elliot,  of 
New  Haven,  and  a  nephew  of  George  A.  Elliot  (Yale  1813), 
was  born  on  December  31,  1824.  A  sister  married  Dr.  John 
K.  Bartlett  (Yale  1838). 


344  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale 
Law  School,  but  his  course  was  interrupted  by  feeble  health. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  August,  1847,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  December,  when  he  began  practice 
here. 

On  June  5,  1849,  he  was  married  to  Sallie  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Pamela  (Anderson)  Sawyer,  of 
Cincinnati. 

His  health  obliged  him  to  spend  a  large  part  of  the  years 
185 1  and  1852  in  travel.  In  October,  1852,  he  sailed  for 
the  West  Indies,  and  on  December  8  he  died  from  yellow 
fever  in  Santa  Cruz,  at  the  age  of  28. 

Two  sons  died  in  infancy ;  a  daughter  survived  him,  who 
was  graduated  at  Vassar  College  (1872),  and  married  Dr. 
Justin  Edwards  Emerson  (Williams  Coll.  1865). 

Mrs.  Elliot  next  married,  in  April,  1859,  Dr.  Lebeus  C. 
Chapin  (Yale  1852),  then  a  Tutor  in  Yale,  who  settled  in 
Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  in  1867.  She  died  in  1888,  in  her 
59th  year. 

After  Mr.  Elliot's  death  his  father  provided  for  the  pub- 
lication of  his  manuscript  genealogy  of  the  Eliot  Family 
(New  Haven,  1854). 

John  Henry  Felder,  the  second  son  of  Samuel  Felder, 
and  nephew  of  John  M.  Felder  (Yale  1804)  and  of  Nathan- 
iel F.  Felder  (Yale  1822),  was  born  on  December  17,  1822, 
on  the  plantation  four  miles  below  Orangeburg,  South  Caro- 
lina, which  was  occupied  by  his  great-grandfather  Felder  on 
his  arrival  from  Switzerland  about  1720.  His  mother  was 
Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Paul  Stroman,  of  Orangeburg 

He  studied  law  with  Judge  John  W.  Glover,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845.  He  then  engaged  in  practice 
in  Orangeburg  and  Barnwell,  but  within  a  few  years  bought 
the  old  family  homestead  near  Orangeburg  and  became  a 
successful  planter. 

He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  for  five  biennial 
terms,  beginning  in  1852. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 844  345 

When  the  Civil  War  began,  he  had  accunuilated  a  large 
property.  He  was,  however,  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer, 
and  was  elected  First  Lieutenant  of  the  Edisto  Rifles,  com- 
posed chiefly  of  residents  of  his  vicinity,  which  became  a 
part  of  the  First  Carolina  Regiment  and  was  stationed  on 
Morris  Island.  After  the  surrender  of  Fort  Sumter,  the 
State  troops  were  reorganized,  and  he  went  to  Virginia  and 
attached  himself  to  Colonel  Kershaw's  regiment  and  was 
in  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run  (July  21,  1861). 

A  few  days  later  he  contracted  camp  fever,  and  was  taken 
home,  where  he  died  on  August  16,  in  his  39th  }ear.  He 
was  unmarried. 

William  Hollister  Guernsey,  the  eldest  son  of  Noah 
and  Amanda  (Crosby)  Guernsey,  of  Northfield  Society,  in 
Litchfield,  Connecticut,  w^as  born  on  April  28,  181 7. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  theology  in  the 
Seminary  in  Auburn,  New  York,  where  he  finished  the 
course  in  June,  1847.  In  July,  1846,  he  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Chenango.  He  was  married  to 
Serena  P.  Burwell.  of  New  Hartford,  Connecticut,  on  April 

8,  1847. 

He  took  charge  (without  ordination)  in  1847  of  the  small 
Congregational  Church  in  Oriskany  Falls,  in  Augusta  town- 
ship, Oneida  County,  New  York;  but  only  remained  there 
for  a  part  of  one  year.  He  w^as  then  prostrated  by  severe 
illness,  and  only  recovered  sufficiently  to  preach  a  few 
times.  In  the  fall  of  1849  he  went  to  Savannah,  in  the 
hope  of  relief  from  consumptive  symptoms;  but  he  died 
there  on  April  7,  1850,  at  the  age  of  33. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  their  only  child,  a  son.  Mrs 
Guernsey  died  of  consumption  some  ten  or  fifteen  years 
later. 

Henry  Kinney,  son  of  Roswell  Kinney.  Junior,  and 
Jerusha  (Rust)  Kinney,  of  Amenia.  Duchess  County,  New 
York,  was  bom  on  October  i,  1816. 


346  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  spent  the  three  years  after  graduation  in  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary  of  New  York. 

Having  been  accepted  as  a  missionary  by  the  American 
Board,  he  was  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  North  River 
in  July,  1847,  and  on  September  6  was  married  to  Maria 
Louisa,  second  daughter  of  Silas  and  Sophia  (Brown)  Wals- 
worth,  in  West  Bloomfield,  Ontario  County. 

They  sailed  in  October  for  Hawaii,  where  he  labored 
efifectively  until  1853.  Being  then  exhausted,  and  especially 
depressed  by  the  loss  of  a  daughter,  he  started  for  home 
with  his  family  by  way  of  California,  where  a  sister  of  his 
wife  resided ;  but  the  journey  was  too  much  for  his  strength, 
and  he  died  in  Sonora,  on  September  24,  1854,  at  the  age 
of  38. 

His  widow,  with  one  son  and  one  daughter,  returned  to 
Hawaii.  In  August,  1856,  she  married  Benjamin  Pitman, 
a  wealthy  tea-merchant  of  Honolulu,  and  died  within  the 
next  two  years. 

Joseph  Lovell,  the  fourth  in  a  family  of  twelve  children 
of  Dr,  Joseph  Lovell  (Harvard  1807),  Surgeon-General  of 
the  United  States  Army,  and  grandson  of  Major  James 
Lovell  (Harvard  1776),  was  born  in  Washington  on  June 
II,  1824.  His  mother  was  Margaret  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Green)  Mansfield,  of  New  York. 
Major-General  Mansfield  Lovell  (U.  S.  Mil.  Acad.  1842) 
was  an  elder  brother.  His  parents  died  in  1836.  The  first 
two  years  of  his  College  course  were  spent  in  Williams 
College. 

He  studied  law  in  Geneva,  and  in  Utica,  New  York,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  City  in  July,  1847. 

He  practiced  his  profession  in  New  York  until  1859, — for 
the  latter  part  of  the  time  in  partnership  with  the  Hon. 
Lucien  B.  Chase. 

On  January  18,  1859,  he  married  Louisa  Turner,  eldest 
daughter  of  Governor  and  General  John  Anthony  Quitman, 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 844  347 

of  Monmouth,  near  Natchez,  Mississippi,  and  widow  of  the 
Rev.  John  Franklin  Chadbourne,  an  Episcopal  clergyman  of 
Natchez,  who  died  in  1853. 

He  then  formed  a  partnership  with  William  Henry  For- 
man,  but  the  death  of  his  wife's  mother,  Mrs.  Eliza 
(Turner)  Quitman,  in  July,  obli,2:ed  him,  as  the  administra- 
tor of  his  estate  and  the  guardian  of  three  minor  daughters, 
to  remove  to  the  family  residence  near  Natchez,  where  he 
continued  until  his  death. 

When  Mississippi  seceded  from  the  Union,  he  joined  the 
Confederate  army  as  Lieutenant  on  the  staff  of  Brigadier- 
General  Earl  VanDorn,  and  a  little  later  on  the  staff  of 
his  brother,  General  Mansfield  Lovell.  at  New  Orleans. 

After  the  surrender  of  New  Orleans,  in  April,  1862, 
he  rejoined  the  staff  of  General  VanDorn  in  northern 
Mississippi. 

After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg,  in  July,  1863,  he  was  attached 
to  the  command  of  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston  in  Georgia, 
and  the  end  of  the  war  found  him  in  the  mountains  of  North 
Carolina  with  a  captain's  commission. 

His  later  years  were  spent  in  the  endeavor  to  retrieve 
the  fortunes  of  the  Quitman  estate,  and  in  the  business  of 
raising  cotton. 

He  died,  after  about  a  week's  illness,  of  malarial  or 
swamp  fever,  at  his  home  near  Natchez,  on  November  28, 
1869,  in  his  46th  year.  His  widow  died  in  April,  1884. 
Their  only  child,  a  daughter,  survived  her  parents. 

William  Allen  Macy  was  born  in  New  York  City  on 
January  29,  1825,  the  younger  son  of  Robert  J.  and  Mary 
Howard  (Allen)  Macy.  His  father  died  in  Hudson  in 
September,  1836.  While  a  child  he  passed  some  years  at 
a  school  in  France. 

He  spent  one  year  after  graduation  in  the  Vale  Divinity 
School,  and  then  went  to  Hong  Kong,  to  take  charge  of 
the  Morrison  Education  Society's  School  for  Chinese  youth. 


348  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  was  subsequently  joined  there  by  his  mother,  and  when 
the  school  was  discontinued  in  1849,  he  returned  to  America 
on  account  of  her  failing  health. 

In  1850  he  resumed  theological  and  classical  studies  in 
New  Haven,  and  completed  his  theological  course  in  1852. 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New  Haven  West  Asso- 
ciation on  July  22,  185 1. 

His  mother's  death  in  October,  1853,  removed  the  only 
obstacle  to  his  return  to  China,  and  on  his  appointment  as 
a  missionary  by  the  American  Board,  he  was  ordained  in 
New  Haven  on  January  29,  1854. 

On  November  6  he  sailed  for  Canton,  where,  and  in 
Shanghai,  he  prepared  himself  for  his  cherished  project, 
of  an  inland  mission  in  northern  China.  He  was  just  about 
leaving  for  this  goal,  when  he  was  attacked  with  smallpox, 
and  died  in  Shanghai  on  April  9,  1859,  in  his  35th  year.  He 
was  unmarried. 

By  his  will  he  left  to  the  College  funds  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  graduate  and  an  undergraduate  scholarship, 
which  bear  his  name. 

Samuel  Dexter  Marsh,  son  of  Foster  and  Lucy  (Thom- 
son) Marsh,  of  Ware,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  Novem- 
ber 28,  181 7.     A  brother  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1840. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  New  York,  where  he  spent  two  years,  followed  by 
one  year  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  In  the  meantime  he 
taught  for  a  while  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut. 

Having  been  accepted  as  a  missionary  by  the  American 
Board,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven,  on  August  31,  1847, 
to  Mary  S.,  daughter  of  the  late  Roger  S.  Skinner  (Yale 
1813),  and  on  September  9  was  ordained  in  Ware  Village. 

They  sailed  on  October  28  for  the  mission  among  the 
Zulus  in  South  Africa.  He  was  stationed  in  Umlazi,  Natal, 
and  labored  there  for  nearly  six  years  with  cheerful  devo- 
tion.    He  died  at  his  home  in  Itafamasi,  after  a  painful 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1844  349 

illness  of  nearly  two  months,  on  December  ii,  1853,  in  his 
37th  year. 

His  widow  returned  to  this  country,  and  subsequently 
married  John  W.  Fitch,  of  New  Haven.  After  his  death 
she  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Harris  (Bowdoin  1833), 
Professor  in  the  Yale  Divinity  School. 

Mr.  Marsh's  only  child  married  Edward  G.  Coy  (Yale 
1869). 

John  Contee  Mullikin,  the  only  son  of  John  Beans  and 
Mary  Moylan  (Weems)  Mullikin,  of  Mount  Oak,  in  Mitch- 
ellville.  Prince  George  County,  Maryland,  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 21,  1824,  and  entered  Yale  in  1842.  A  sister  married 
William  A.  Gunton  (Yale  1847). 

He  studied  law  in  Baltimore,  and  after  his  admission  to 
the  bar  in  March,  1847,  began  practice  in  Upper  Marlboro, 
Prince  George  County,  and  practiced  with  success  until  his 
sudden  death  there,  on  May  28,  1858,  in  his  34th  year.  He 
was  unmarried. 

He  was  a  man  of  sterling  Christian  character,  and 
sincerely  respected. 

Alexander  Fisher  Olmsted,  the  third  son  of  Professor 
Denison  Olmsted  (Yale  1813),  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  was  born  in  Chapel  Hill  on  December  20,  1822. 
His  father  accepted  a  professorship  at  Yale  in  1825. 

On  graduation  he  became  an  assistant  in  the  University 
Grammar  School  in  New  York  City,  but  the  labors  and 
confinement  of  the  position  pressed  too  heavily  on  his  health. 

In  the  fall  of  1845  he  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School, 
but  the  trial  of  a  few  weeks  proved  him  unequal  to  this 
task  also.  He  spent  the  winter  to  advantage  with  a  family 
friend  in  Maryland,  and  the  following  summer  on  a  farm 
in  East  Hartford. 

In  the  fall  of  1846  he  was  sufficiently  restored  to  under- 
take the  teaching  of  the  natural  sciences  in  the  school  of 
the  Rev.  Robert  Bolton,  in  New  Rochelle,  New  York. 


35©  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

After  two  years'  teaching'  he  ventured  to  resume  his 
preparation  for  the  ministry,  in  the  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  New  York,  but  another  failure  of  health  brought 
him  home  in  the  spring  of  1849. 

In  the  ensuing  fall  he  accepted  an  invitation  to  become 
Assistant  to  the  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of 
Alabama,  at  Tuscaloosa,  where  he  passed  a  profitable  winter. 
As  one  result,  he  was  led  to  decide  on  Chemistry  as  his 
profession,  and  spent  the  next  two  years  in  work  in  the 
chemical  laboratory  in  New  Haven,  and  in  the  preparation 
of  a  text-book  on  the  Elements  of  Chemistry,  which  was 
published  in  the  summer  of  1851,  and  was  very  favorably 
received.  He  was  revising  a  second  edition,  when  another 
and  more  serious  break-down  of  his  health  occurred.  He 
w^ent  again  to  Maryland,  but  was  obliged  to  return  home 
unimproved,  and  died  here  on  May  5,  1853,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Denison  Olmsted,  Junior,  the  fourth  son  of  Professor 
Denison  Olmsted  (Yale  1813),  was  born  in  Chapel  Hill, 
North  Carolina,  on  February  16,  1824,  and  entered  Yale 
with  his  brother,  just  noticed. 

On  graduation  he  applied  himself  zealously  to  the  study 
of  analytical  chemistry  at  Yale.  In  January,  1846,  he  was 
appointed  assistant  in  the  State  Geological  Survey  of  Ver- 
mont ;  but  in  March  a  former  pulmonary  weakness,  aggra- 
vated perhaps  by  his  care  of  an  older  brother  (Yale  1845), 
who  had  died  in  January,  became  more  active,  and  he  died, 
at  his  father's  house  in  New  Haven,  of  quick  consumption, 
on  August  15,  aged  22^  years. 

HoLLis  Russell,  the  second  surviving  son  of  Francis  and 
Rhoda  (Russell)  Russell,  was  born  in  Concord,  Somerset 
County,  Maine,  on  July  6,  181 7.  In  his  infancy  his  father 
removed  to  the  neighboring  town  of  Moscow ;  and  his  Col- 
lege residence  was  in  Bingham,  in  the  same  vicinity. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 844  35 1 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  taught  in  a  family  in 
Clarksville,  Tennessee,  and  then  began  his  preparation  for 
the  ministry  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  After 
six  months  he  removed  to  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where 
he  remained  till  the  summer  of  1848. 

He  married  in  1848  Lucy  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  (Bailey)  Hamlin,  of  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts, 
who  had  been  a  teacher  in  Oak  Hill  Seminary,  West  Haven, 
where  Mr.  Russell  had  also  taught. 

In  October,  1848,  he  went  as  a  Home  Missionary  to  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Schoolcraft,  Kalamazoo  County, 
Michigan.  Under  his  leadership  the  church  became  Presby- 
terian in  April,  1849. 

He  died  in  Schoolcraft,  after  less  than  a  week's  illness, 
from  dysentery,  on  August  14,  1850,  at  the  age  of  33. 

His  wife  survived  him,  without  children. 

Augustus  Sammis,  second  son  of  John  S.  and  Nancy  W. 
(Seymour)  Sammis,  of  Nor  walk,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
July  21,  1822. 

He  studied  medicine  with  John  A.  McLean,  M.D.  (Yale 
1822),  of  Norwalk,  and  attended  one  course  of  lectures 
(1846-47)  in  the  Yale  Medical  School. 

He  began  practice  in  Norwalk,  but  soon  removed  to 
Lisle,  Broome  County,  New  York.  This  location  proved 
unsatisfactory,  and  he  returned  to  Norwalk,  where  he  was 
comparatively  successful. 

He  died,  of  typhoid  fever,  in  Norwalk,  on  July  29,  1855, 
at  the  age  of  33. 

He  married  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Daniel  Starr  Bartram, 
of  Norwalk,  who  survived  him,  with  one  son  and  two 
daughters. 

James  Austin  Sheldon,  son  of  James  Sheldon,  of 
Rupert,  Vermont,  and  grandson  of  Deacon  David  Sheldon, 
from  Suffield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  4,  1822. 


352  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

His  mother  was  Abigail,  daughter  of  Deacon  Roswell 
Flower,  of  Rupert. 

After  teaching  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  in  Rupert,  he 
studied  law  in  Salem,  New  York,  and  with  the  Hon.  Solo- 
mon Foot  (Middlebury  Coll.  1826),  of  Rutland;  and  then 
practiced  in  Rutland  for  a  year  after  his  admission  to  the 
bar. 

He  married,  in  1850,  Mary,  daughter  of  Judge  Benjamin 
F.  Langdon  (Union  Coll.  1818),  of  Castleton. 

In  185 1  he  went  to  California,  and  engaged  in  gold-min- 
ing, but  returned  to  Rupert  in  1859  or  i860,  broken  in 
health  and  spirits. 

In  October,  1861,  he  entered  the  army  as  Captain  in  the 
First  Vermont  Cavalry,  but  was  obliged  to  resign  on 
account  of  rheumatism,  in  March,  1862. 

He  was  then  laid  aside  from  all  occupations  for  about  two 
years.  He  taught  the  village  school  in  Rupert  in  1865-66, 
serving  at  the  same  time  as  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

In  1867  he  bought  an  interest  in  a  general  store  in  Rupert, 
which  he  conducted  until  compelled  to  sell  out  by  the  state 
of  his  health,  a  short  time  before  his  death. 

He  died  in  Rupert,  from  Bright's  disease,  on  June  19, 
1877,  in  his  55th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him  without  children. 

William  Smith,  son  of  Lewis  Smith,  of  Spafiford,  Onon- 
daga County,  New  York,  and  grandson  of  Job  and  Eliza- 
beth (Keeler)  Smith,  natives  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  August  31,  1819.  His  mother  was  Chloe,  daughter 
of  Elkanah  and  Deborah  (Wheelock)  Benson,  of  Marcellus. 
A  brother  was  graduated  here  in  1849. 

He  taught  for  two  years  in  Baltimore,  at  the  same  time 
studying  law,  and  then  began  practice  in  Weston,  Platte 
County,  Missouri.  In  January,  1849,  he  set  out  for  Califor- 
nia, reaching  San  Francisco  in  July.  After  spending  a  short 
time  in  the  mines,  he  engaged  in  business  in  Sacramento, 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 844  353 

but  died  there,  of  cholera,  after  a  few  hours'  illness,  on 
November  6,  1850,  in  his  32d  year. 

James  Ellison  VanBokkelen  entered  Yale  from  New- 
bern,  North  Carolina,  in  1842.  He  was  the  son  of  Adrian 
H.  VanBokkelen,  and  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
on  June  18,  1825. 

After  a  course  of  study  in  the  General  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  New  York  (1844-47)  he  was  admitted  to  Deacon's 
orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church  by  Bishop  Whittingham,  of 
Maryland,  on  August  i,  1847. 

He  had  charge  for  a  short  time  of  Grace  Church,  Elkridge 
Landing,  in  the  suburbs  of  Baltimore,  and  in  September, 
1848,  went  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  in  St.  Louis. 

He  left  St.  Louis,  worn  out  by  attendance  on  the  sick 
during  a  visitation  of  the  cholera,  and  returned  to  Maryland, 
to  serve  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Timothy's  Church, 
Catonsville.  While  thus  engaged,  he  died  in  Baltimore, 
after  a  lingering  illness  of  nearly  five  months,  on  November 
17,  1850,  in  his  26th  year. 

He  married,  on  August  31,  1848,  Mary  Grundy. 

William  Minor  Williams,  son  of  Ebenezer  T.  Wil- 
liams, a  native  of  Williamstown,  Massachusetts,  who  settled 
near  Appling,  in  Columbia  County,  Georgia,  was  born  on 
December  8,  1824.  His  mother  was  Susan,  daughter  of 
William  Jones,  of  Columbia  County.  He  entered  Yale  in 
1 841. 

After  graduation  he  read  law  with  William  T.  Gould 
(Yale  1816),  of  Augusta,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but 
never  practiced,  on  account  of  poor  health,  which  also 
incapacitated  him  from  engaging  in  any  business. 

He  is  reported  to  have  died  by  his  own  hand  about  1852. 
He  was  never  married. 


354  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

CLASS    OF    1845 

William  Augustus  Bigelow  was  born  in  Brandon,  Rut- 
land County,  Vermont,  on  March  8,  1825,  the  only  son  of 
Dr.  Elijah  Avery  and  Milly  (June)  Bigelow. 

He  began  to  teach  in  New  Jersey  after  graduation;  but 
in  consequence  of  the  inroads  of  consumption  he  was  obliged 
to  retire  to  the  home  of  a  sister  in  New  Brighton,  Staten 
Island,  New  York,  where  he  died  on  February  13,  1846,  in 
his  2 1  St  year. 

Samuel  Sitgreaves  Bowman,  son  of  the  Rev.  Samuel 
and  Susan  (Sitgreaves)  Bowman,  was  born  in  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  on  February  19,  1826.  In  his  infancy  his 
father  removed  to  Lancaster.  Many  years  later  he  became 
Assistant  Bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Pennsylvania. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  with  the  Hon.  William  M. 
Meredith  (Univ.  Penns.  1812),  of  Philadelphia,  but  his 
health  failed  rapidly,  and  he  died  at  his  home  in  Lancaster, 
on  May  16,  1846,  in  his  21st  year. 

JosiAH  Bissell  Crowell,  son  of  David  and  Rebecca 
Crowell,  of  Perth  Amboy,  New  Jersey,  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 26,  1823. 

He  had  made  his  plans  for  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Cortlandt  Parker  (Rutgers  Coll.  1836),  of  Newark,  but 
died  at  his  home,  from  bilious  fever,  on  September  18,  just 
four  weeks  after  graduation,  in  his  22d  year. 

Isaac  LaFayette  Cushman,  the  only  son  of  Dr.  Isaac 
and  Harriet  Keziah  (Garrett)  Cushman,  of  BurHngton, 
Otsego  County,  New  York,  was  born  on  March  17,  1823. 
In  1835  his  father  retired  from  professional  practice,  and 
removed  to  Sherburne,  Chenango  County. 

After  graduation  he  remained  at  home,  studying  medi- 
cine as  a  recreation,  while  debarred  by  consumptive  symp- 
toms  from  much   exertion.     During   1848  and  a   part  of 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 845    -       355 

1849  he  was  Principal  of  the  academies  in  Sherburne  and 
New  Berlin.  In  1849  he  was  persuaded  to  accept  a  Demo- 
cratic nomination  as  Representative  in  the  State  Leg-islature, 
and  was  elected  by  a  large  majority,  but  the  sudden  death 
of  his  father,  in  March,  1850,  obliged  him  to  resign  shortly 
before  the  close  of  the  session. 

While  settling  his  father's  estate  he  embarked  with  a 
friend  in  the  drug  business,  but  lost  his  entire  investment 
by  fire  the  ensuing  summer. 

From  this  time  his  health  failed  rapidly.  In  the  fall  of 
1854  he  left  home  for  a  more  genial  climate,  spending  the 
winter  in  St.  Louis,  and  going  thence  to  Quincy,  Illinois, 
where  he  made  improvement  and  was  able  to  undertake 
some  employment. 

In  the  spring  of  1857  he  decided  to  return  home,  in  view 
of  his  declining  condition;  but  he  was  unable  to  rally,  and 
died  in  Quincy  on  June  12,  in  his  35th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 

James  Gardner  Gould,  the  eldest  son  of  William  Tracy 
Gould  (Yale  1816),  of  Augusta,  Georgia,  was  born  in  the 
suburbs  of  Augusta  on  August  14,  1825,  and  was  named 
for  his  maternal  grandfather.  He  delivered  the  Valedic- 
tory Oration  at  graduation. 

He  studied  law  with  his  father,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  September,  1847.  In  May,  1848,  he  became  Tutor 
at  Yale,  and  in  the  summer  of  1849  entered  on  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Augusta  with  brilliant  prospects. 

He  married,  on  November  25,  1852,  Harriet  Glascock, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Bartlett,  of  Augusta. 
.  On  September  13,  1854,  yellow  fever  appeared  in 
Augusta,  and  in  Mr.  Gould's  immediate  neighborhood. 
Three  days  later  he  took  his  family  to  Marietta,  in  Cobb 
County;  but  on  the  i8th  he  was  stricken  with  the  fever, 
and  he  died  on  the  21st,  in  his  30th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  one  daughter. 


356  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

William  Riddle  Harper,  the  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Jane  (Harkness)  Harper,  of  Kortright,  Delaware  County, 
New  York,  was  born  on  August  26,  1819.  In  his  infancy 
his  father  removed  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Harpersfield. 
He  entered  the  Sophomore  Class  in  1842. 

He  taught  for  a  year  in  Washington,  District  of  Colum- 
bia, and  for  two  years  in  Delhi,  in  his  native  county.  In 
the  spring  of  1848  he  was  appointed  Principal  of  the 
Academy  in  Rhinebeck,  Duchess  County. 

He  married,  on  April  26,  1848,  Mary  Jane,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Mead  and  Hannah  Priscilla  (Dennis)  St. 
John,  of  Wilkesbarre,  Pennsylvania. 

In  the  spring  of  185 1  he  left  Rhinebeck,  to  open  a 
classical  school  in  Newburgh.  His  constitution,  never 
rugged,  was  overstrained  by  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  this 
new  enterprise;  and  his  death  from  pulmonary  disease  fol- 
lowed, on  June  7,  1855,  in  his  36th  year. 

His  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  survived  him.  His 
widow  next  married  James  Troope,  and  died  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  on  February  7,  1873,  in  her  48th  year. 


Thomas  Kennedy  was  born  in  Ireland  on  August  19, 
1822,  and  was  brought  to  Baltimore  with  his  family  in 
1833.  Three  or  four  years  later  he  came  under  Protestant 
influences,  and  while  a  clerk  in  Philadelphia  his  attention 
was  turned  to  the  ministry. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary, where  he  remained  for  three  years.  During  the  fol- 
lowing winter  he  preached  as  he  had  opportunity,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1849  he  engaged  to  supply  a  pulpit  on  the 
eastern  shore  of  Virginia.  On  his  way  thither,  about  the 
first  of  July,  he  was  overtaken  by  disease  in  Baltimore,  and 
after  nine  weeks'  illness  from  dysentery,  he  died  in  that 
city  on  September  8,  in  his  28th  year. 


I 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1845  357 

John  Howard  Olmsted,  the  second  son  of  Professor 
Denison  Olmsted  (Yale  1813),  was  born  in  Chapel  Hill, 
North  Carolina,  on  September  8,  1820.  His  father  accepted 
a  professorship  at  Yale  in  1825.  He  entered  College  in 
1836,  but  showed  signs  of  pulmonary  trouble  during  the 
Freshman  year,  and  withdrew  at  its  close. 

He  then  attempted  to  engage  in  business,  but  was 
repeatedly  interrupted  by  the  condition  of  his  health. 
Finally,  he  entered  the  Junior  Class  in  College  in  the  fall 
of  1843,  and  was  able  to  complete  the  course. 

In  the  October  after  graduation  he  went  South  for  the 
winter,  and  in  his  search  of  improvement  finally  reached 
Jacksonville,  Florida,  on  January  2,  1846.  He  died  there 
on  the  17th,  in  his  26th  year.  His  body  was  brought  to 
New  Haven  for  burial. 

Timothy  Dwight  Sprague,  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
William  B.  Sprague  (Yale  1815),  was  born  in  Andover. 
Connecticut,  on  January  26,  1819.  His  literary  tastes  were 
prominently  displayed,  and  his  writings  gave  promise  of 
successful  authorship. 

He  taught  for  a  year  in  Brockport,  New  York,  and  then 
went  to  Albany,  where  his  uncle  encouraged  him  to  under- 
take a  new  periodical.  In  July,  1847,  the  first  number  of 
a  monthly,  called  the  American  Literary  Magazine,  was 
issued  under  his  editorship;  and  it  appeared  with  regu- 
larity until  August,  1849.  The  venture  did  credit  to  the 
editor's  taste  and  skill,  but  was  too  much  for  his  strength. 
He  died,  after  a  brief  illness,  at  his  father's  house  in 
Andover,  on  October  8,  1849,  i"  ^^'^  3Tst  year. 

David  Blair  Watkinson,  son  of  Edward  and  Lavinia 
(Hudson)  Watkinson,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  October  11,  1825.  He  spent  the  first  two  years  of  his 
course  in  Trinity  College.  A  sister  married  the  Rev. 
Horace  Hooker  (Yale  1815). 


358  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

During  the  winter  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Rock- 
ville,  but  about  the  middle  of  March  he  returned  home 
quite  ill.  After  a  gradual  failure,  he  died  from  a  paralytic 
stroke  on  May  14,  in  his  21st  year. 

Ira  Benjamin  Wheeler,  son  of  Ira  Benjamin  and  Han- 
nah Wheeler,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  on  May  4, 
1826. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  bookkeeper  in  the  dry- 
goods  house  of  Vail  &  Kensett,  of  New  York  City;  and 
in  February,  1846,  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  new  firm 
of  Kensett  &  Wheeler. 

He  married,  on  October  6,  1847,  Kitty  Ann,  daughter  of 
Edwin  S.  and  Rachel  T.  (Price)  Belknap,  of  New  York. 

In  1849  he  retired  from  the  dry-goods  business,  and 
engaged  in  that  of  hermetically  sealed  provisions,  oysters, 
fruit,  etc.,  under  the  firm-name  of  Thomas  Kensett  &  Co. ; 
but  the  business  was  soon  transferred  to  Baltimore,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1852  he  removed  thither  with  his  family. 

In  the  fall  of  1855  he  was  suddenly  attacked  with  pul- 
monary consumption.  He  went  South  in  February,  1857, 
but  after  March  the  disease  developed  rapidly,  and  he 
returned  home  in  June  without  hope  of  recovery.  He  died 
on  November  17,  1857,  aged  3i>4  years. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters,— two  other  children  having  died  in  infancy. 

George  Terry  Wright,  the  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Sally 
(Terry)  Wright,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  in 
Enfield,  his  mother's  former  residence,  on  January  15, 
1825.     He  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

His  health,  while  in  College,  was  not  good,  and  did  not 
allow  of  his  preparing  to  study  a  profession.  After  a  few 
months  he  took  a  trip  South,  where  he  taught  for  a  time 
in  St.  Simon's  Island,  Georgia.  He  returned  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1847;  but  went  again  to  South  Carolina  in  the  fall, 
and  took  a  position  as  private  tutor. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1S46  359 

He  finally  returned  to  Hartford,  and  occupied  himself 
in  teaching  until  his  sudden  death,  from  inflammation  of 
the  bowels,  on  October  20,  1852,  in  his  28th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 


CLASS  OF    1846 

Charles  Goldthwaite  Adams,  son  of  Dr.  Charles 
Goldthwaite  Adams  (Dartmouth  Coll.  18 10)  and  Mary  Ann 
(King)  Adams,  of  Keene,  New  Hampshire,  was  born  on 
May  9,  1827. 

He  studied  medicine  with  his  father,  and  after  two 
courses  of  lectures  in  Boston,  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
from  Harvard  University  in  1849.  He  then  served  for 
six  months  as  house-surgeon  in  the  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital,  after  which  he  was  associated  with  his  father  in 
practice,  until  March,  185 1,  when  he  settled  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey. 

He  was  rapidly  gaining  practice,  when  he  took  a  severe 
cold  in  the  last  week  of  July,  1852,  resulting  in  fever,  with 
typhoid  symptoms,  from  which  he  died  on  September  11,  in 
his  26th  year.     He  was  to  have  been  married  in  September. 

Frederick  Peter  Bellinger,  son  of  Colonel  Frederick 
P.  and  Marie  B.  (Weber)  Bellinger,  of  Herkimer,  New 
York,  was  born  on  January  22,  1826.  A  brother  was 
graduated  in  1841. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Cagger  & 
Hill,  in  Albany,  but  a  slight  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs  soon 
made  it  prudent  for  him  to  return  home,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  studies  with  Judge  Ezra  Graves,  until  his  health 
failed  in  the  spring  of  1849. 

He  died  in  Herkimer,  of  pulmonary  consumption,  on 
October  30,  1849,  in  his  24th  year. 

James  Jonathan  Coit,  the  only  child  of  Dr.  James  Coit, 
was  born  in  Cheraw,  South  Carolina,  on  March  26,   1827. 


360  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

His  father  was  a  native  of  New  London,  Connecticut,  as 
was  his  mother,  Frances,  daughter  of  Pardon  Taber.  John 
C.  Coit  (Yale  1818),  David  G.  Coit  (Yale  1819),  Thomas 
W.  Coit  (Yale  1821),  and  Gurdon  S.  Coit  (Yale  1828), 
were  his  first  cousins.  He  entered  College  in  1843,  with 
his  residence  in  New  London ;  but  by  the  Senior  year  his 
father  had  settled  in  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana. 

He  studied  medicine  with  his  father  in  Baton  Rouge, 
and  began  practice  there,  but  died  early.  He  had  for  years 
been  subject  to  dizziness,  and  while  crossing  a  stream  near 
his  home,  fell  from  his  horse  from  this  cause,  and  was 
drowned. 

Calvin  Morgan  Fackler,  the  eldest  son  of  John  J.  and 
Elizabeth  (Turner)  Fackler,  of  Huntsville,  Alabama,  was 
born  on  November  14,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  open- 
ing of  Junior  year  from  East  Tennessee  Uni\ersity,  at 
Knoxville. 

He  studied  law  at  home  after  graduation,  but  eventually 
entered  on  a  mercantile  life  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Bradley,  Wilson  &  Co.,  in  Memphis,  Tennessee. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  a  diseased  bone  near  the 
ankle,  the  result  of  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever  some 
years  before,  unfitted  him  for  active  service;  but  he  joined 
General  Pillow's  Division  of  the  Confederate  Army  of 
Tennessee  as  commissary,  with  the  rank  of  Major.  The 
hardships  incident  to  this  period  aggravated  his  disease,  and 
left  him  a  prey  to  hereditary  paralysis,  which  caused  his 
sudden  death,  while  temporarily  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  on 
April  24,  1865,  in  his  39th  year. 

He  married,  in  Memphis,  on  January  12,  1853,  Anna, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  S.  Kirk,  by  whom  he  had  five 
sons,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

Thomas  Isaac  Franklin,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Purnell)    Franklin,  of  Berlin,  Worcester  Cotmty,   Mary- 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1846  36 1 

land,  was  born  on  October  lo,  1827,  and  entered  Yale  in 
1843.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  1849. 

He  studied  law,  and  was  just  beginning  practice  in  Berlin, 
when  he  died  there,  on  September  18,  1848,  in  his  21st  year. 

William  Walter  Horton,  son  of  Rodah  and  Lucy  A. 
(Otey)  Horton,  was  born  near  Huntsville,  Madison  County, 
Alabama,  on  August  7,  1825. 

He  studied  law,  but  practiced  for  only  a  short  time, 
retiring  to  take  charge  of  a  plantation  which  he  owned  in 
Marengo  County. 

He  married  Vannie  VanDyke  in  1853. 

He  served  in  the  army  of  the  Confederacy  during  the 
Civil  War,  being  on  the  staff  of  General  John  T.  Morgan. 

A  virulent  fever  contracted  in  the  malarious  swamps 
caused  his  death,  in  Marengo  County,  in  June,  1865,  in  his 
40th  year. 

Isaac  Nelson  Keas  was  born  on  July  29,  1827,  and 
entered  Yale  from  Harrodsburg,  Mercer  County,  Kentucky, 
in  1845.  He  had  previously  been  a  student  in  Bacon  Col- 
lege, Georgetown,  Kentucky. 

He  is  reported  as  having  died  of  consumption  about  1851. 

Stephen  Duncan  Linton  was  born  in  Natchez,  Mis- 
sissippi, on  July  24,  1826,  the  son  of  one  of  the  largest 
cotton-planters  in  the  State. 

He  was  successfully  engaged  in  cotton-planting,  and  spent 
much  of  his  time  in  New  Orleans,  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  War,  in  which  he  lost  all  his  property. 

He  went  subsequently  to  Paris,  and  after  an  interval  of 
great  physical  and  mental  prostration  died  there  on  Decem- 
ber 15,  1867,  in  his  42d  year. 

His  wife  survived  him. 

William  Minor,  son  of  Truman  and  Eunice  (Peet) 
Minor,  of  Peekskill,  New  York,  was  born  on  January  24, 
1827,  and  entered  Yale  during  the  Sophomore  year. 


362  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  Studied  law  for  three  years  in  Honesdale,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  on  October  8,  1850, 
married  Frances  J.  Clinton,  of  Peekskill. 

About  this  time  his  health  began  to  fail,  and  for  about 
three  years  he  suffered  acutely  from  spinal  disease.  He 
died  in  Peekskill  on  December  28,  1853,  in  his  27th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  without  children. 

David  Humphrey  Mulford  was  born  in  Steuben,  Oneida 
County,  New  York,  on  August  3,  1823. 

During  the  last  term  of  his  College  course  he  engaged 
in  the  iron  business,  and  he  afterwards  devoted  most  of 
his  time  to  it. 

He  died  on  January  6,  or  July  6,  1890,  in  his  67th  year. 

George  Washington  Thomas  Perkins,  of  Chestertown, 
Maryland,  was  born  on  March  29,  1824,  and  entered  Yale 
during  the  Freshman  year. 

He  became  a  farmer  in  his  native  place,  and  was  married 
and  had  a  family. 

After  suffering  for  some  time  with  disease  of  the  heart, 
he  died  suddenly  in  Chestertown,  on  December  3,  1885,  in 
his  62d  year. 

Chester  Newell  Righter,  the  fifth  son  of  John  and 
Lockey  (Stiles)  Righter,  of  Parsippany,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  on  September  25,  1824. 

After  a  year  spent  in  his  father's  business,  he  entered 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  where  he  completed  the  three 
years'  course,  being  licensed  to  preach  on  August  7,  1849, 
by  the  Middlesex  (Connecticut)  Association. 

He  preached  in  various  places  with  success,  and  in  1852 
spent  some  time  in  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  as  a 
resident  licentiate. 

His  eyes  failing,  he  set  out  for  Europe  and  the  Orient 
in  the  spring  of  1853,  and  returned  a  year  later,  much 
improved. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 846  363 

Being  urged  to  undertake  the  agency  of  the  American 
Bible  Society  in  the  Turkish  Empire,  he  accepted  the  call, 
and  was  ordained  as  an  Evangelist  by  the  Presbytery  of 
Newark  on  September  22,  1854.  He  reached  Constanti- 
nople in  December,  and  labored  at  the  seat  of  war,  and  later 
in  Egypt,  Palestine,  and  Eastern  Turkey,  with  success,  until 
his  death,  after  a  few  days'  illness,  in  Diarbekir,  Kurdistan, 
at  the  house  of  one  of  the  missionaries  of  the  American 
Board,  on  December  16,  1856,  in  his  33d  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 

James  Giles  Rowland,  son  of  Charles  and  Betsey 
(Giles)  Rowland,  was  born  in  Troy,  New  York,  on  Sep- 
tember 21,  181 5.  He  had  learned  the  trade  of  a  cabinet- 
maker, before  winning  an  education. 

On  graduation  he  began  teaching  in  Wilton,  Connecticut, 
and  remained  there  until  the  spring  of  1849.  He  next 
taught  for  one  term  in  South  Norwalk,  and  then  in  Fairfield 
until  early  in  1850. 

On  April  2,  1850,  he  married  Elizabeth,  second  daughter 
of  Dr.  David  Willard,  of  Wilton,  and  sister  of  a  classmate ; 
and  in  the  following  month  he  opened  a  family  boarding- 
school  for  boys  in  W^ilton,  which  he  continued  successfully 
until  his  death  there,  from  pulmonary  disease,  on  August 
20,  1853,  in  his  38th  year. 

His  widow  married,  in  October,  1864,  Lewis  J.  Curtiss,  of 
Norwalk. 

JosiAH  Savage,  the  eldest  child  of  Edward  and  Harriet 
(White)  Savage,  of  that  part  of  Middletown,  Connecticut, 
which  is  now  Cromwell,  was  born  on  October  5,  1824. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
continued  it  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  admitted  to 
the  ba*-  in  the  spring  of  1848. 

In  January,  1849,  he  sailed  for  San  Francisco,  intending 
to  follow  his  profession  there.  He  visited  the  mines  in  the 
northern  part  of  California,  but  the  exposure  and  fatigue 


364  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

were  too  severe  for  his  delicate  frame,  and  he  died  from 
fever  on  November  i,  1849,  ^t  the  age  of  25.  He  was 
buried  on  the  banks  of  Trinity  River. 

RuFus  Smith^  the  elder  son  of  Dr.  Rufus  and  Clarissa 
(Huntington,  Bottom)  Smith,  of  Griswold,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  September  17,  1821.  His  father  afterwards 
abandoned  his  profession  as  a  physician,  and  in  1838  was 
settled  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  East 
Hampton  Society,  in  Chatham. 

He  taught  for  about  a  year  after  graduation  in  Powelton, 
Hancock  County,  Georgia;  and  about  the  ist  of  September, 
1847,  left  there  on  his  way  to  Galveston,  Texas,  to  take 
another  school.  At  New  Orleans  the  vessel  in  which  he 
was  to  take  passage  was  delayed ;  he  contracted  yellow 
fever,  and  died  there  on  October  14,  in  his  27th  year. 

Albert  Everett  Stetson,  son  of  Caleb  and  Susanna 
(Hunt)  Stetson,  of  Braintree,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
May  2,  1826.     The  family  soon  removed  to  Boston. 

He  studied  medicine  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1849.  He  then  began  prac- 
tice in  South  Scituate,  now  Norwell,  and  represented  that 
town  in  the  Legislature  in  1855. 

Finding  country  practice  too  fatiguing,  he  removed  a 
little  later  to  Dorchester,  on  the  borders  of  Milton,  where 
he  died,  of  typhoid  fever,  on  July  5,  1857,  in  his  32d  year. 

He  married,  in  1852,  a  daughter  of  Henry  J.  Holbrook, 
of  Braintree,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

Joseph  Stiles,  the  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  Edward  and 
Mary  Ann  (Mackey)  Stiles,  of  Savannah,  Georgia,  and 
nephew  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  C.  Stiles  (Yale  1814),  was 
born  on  January  14,  1826,  and  entered  College  in  1844. 

He  returned  home  after  graduation,  and  was  preparing 
to  undertake  manufacturing  in  Georgia,  when  he  died,  on 
August  17,  1 85 1,  in  his  26th  year. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 847  365 

Lorenzo  Wesson,  son  of  Abner  and  Sarah  (Hall) 
Wesson,  was  born  in  Brunswick  County,  Virginia,  on 
April  3,  1822,  and  entered  Yale  in  1841  from  Chillicothe, 
Ohio.  He  remained  with  the  Class  of  1845  ""til  June  of 
Senior  year,  when  he  took  a  dismission.  He  joined  the 
next  Class  in  January,  1846. 

He  remained  for  many  years  in  Chillicothe,  and  during 
part  of  the  time  was  county  surveyor. 

He  married  Wilhelmina  Mollenkopf,  of  Chillicothe,  on 
April  23,  1868,  and  removed  to  California  in  1886. 

He  died  in  Los  Angeles,  on  January  26,  1898,  in  his  76th 
year. 

His  widow  is  still  living,  with  three  of  their  six  children. 


CLASS   OF    1847 

Samuel  Perkins  Allison  was  born  on  September  28, 
1827,  and  entered  Yale  in  1844  from  Williamson  County, 
Tennessee. 

At  graduation  his  residence  was  in  Nashville,  and  there 
he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1849. 

He  practiced  his  profession  in  Nashville,  but  died  at  the 
house  of  his  uncle,  Thomas  F.  Perkins,  in  Williamson 
County,  on  April  i,  1858,  in  his  31st  year.  He  was  buried 
in  Nashville. 

He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  the  unsuccessful 
opponent  of  the  Hon.  Felix  K.  Zollicoffer  in  one  candidacy 
for  Congress. 

Benjamin  Wisner  Bacon,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Leonard  Bacon  (Yale  1820),  of  New  Haven,  was  born 
on  November  25,  1827. 

At  the  time  of  graduation  he  was  already  the  victim  of 
consumption;  and  he  died  in  New  Haven  on  January  8, 
1848,  in  his  22d  year.     This  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 


366  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Anthony  Wayne  Baker,  son  of  Joshua  and  Fanny 
(Stelle)  Baker,  of  Franklin,  Saint  Mary  County,  Louisiana, 
was  born  on  May  5,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  shortly  after 
the  opening  of  Freshman  year. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  New  Orleans  Law  School, 
and  later  settled  on  a  plantation  in  his  native  county. 

He  married,  in  May,  185 1,  Emma  M.  Fuzileer,  of  the 
same  vicinity,  and  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  in 
1852. 

He  died  of  yellow  fever,  in  Attakapas,  St.  Mary  County, 
on  October  20,  1854,  in  his  29th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him  with  their  children,  a  son  and 
a  daughter. 

Roger  Sherman  Baldwin,  Junior,  son  of  the  Hon. 
Roger  Sherman  Baldwin  (Yale  181 1),  of  New  Haven,  was 
born  on  July  4,  1826,  and  entered  College  in  1844. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  in  Hartford  with 
his  uncle,  Thomas  C.  Perkins  (Yale  1818),  and  finally  for 
a  few  months  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  J.  Prescott  Hall 
(Yale  18 1 7),  of  New  York  City. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Washington  (his  father 
being  then  in  the  United  States  Senate)  early  in  1849; 
and  in  the  spring  of  that  year  he  went  to  California,  where 
he  opened  an  office  in  San  Francisco  and  accepted,  tempo- 
rarily, a  clerkship  in  the  custom-house. 

In  one  of  the  great  fires  that  occurred  soon  afterwards, 
his  valuable  library  was  destroyed,  and  he  then  joined 
Eastern  friends  in  the  mining  region,  near  Folsom. 

In  the  fall  of  1856  he  was  thrown  from  his  horse,  and  his 
head  struck  a  stone.  The  shock  caused  brain  fever, 
from  which  he  died,  at  Baker's  Ranch,  on  November  11, 
in  his  31st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

John  Cotton,  of  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
February  19,  1826,  the  younger  son  of  Joseph  and  Nabby 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1847  367 

(Storrs)  Cotton,  and  grandson  of  Deacon  Simon  and  Eliza- 
beth (Davison)  Cotton,  of  Pomfret. 

On  graduation  he  began  to  teach  school  in  Tolland,  at 
the  same  time  studying  medicine. 

He  died  there,  of  typhus  fever,  on  January  9,  1848,  in 
his  22d  year. 

Simeon  Allen  Craig  was  born  in  New  Liberty,  Ken- 
tucky, about  forty  miles  south  of  Cincinnati,  on  September 
I,  1824. 

He  studied  law  with  Judge  James  Prior,  in  Carrollton, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  did  not  engage  in  practice. 
He  became  a  teacher,  and  taught  in  various  places  in  the 
South  until  i860,  when  he  returned  to  his  early  home.  He 
did  not  take  part  in  the  Civil  War. 

He  continued  teaching  after  the  war,  particularly  in  Car- 
rollton and  Madison,  until  his  health  failed.  He  died  in 
New  Liberty  on  October  18,  1879,  in  his  56th  year. 

He  married  Eliza  Spangler,  of  New  Liberty,  who  died 
on  April  28,  1887,  leaving  two  sons  and  three  daughters. 

George  Washington  Cumings  was  born  in  Lexington, 
Virginia,  probably  on  January  7,  1827.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  York,  Pennsylvania,  and  his  mother  was  Miss 
Shields,  of  Virginia.  He  had  been  graduated  at  Washington 
College,  now  Washington  and  Lee  University  in  Lexington, 
in  1846,  before  entering  Yale  in  Senior  year. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  Lexington  with  James  D. 
Davidson,  and  continued  it  at  the  University  of  Virginia. 

On  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1849,  he  began  practice  in 
Lexington.  In  December,  1850,  he  went  to  Mississippi  to 
visit  relatives,  and  thence  with  a  kinsman  to  Austin,  Texas, 
where  they  intended  to  settle.  As  the  climate,  however,  did 
not  suit  him,  he  returned  to  Virginia  in  September,  1851. 

In  November,  1852,  he  left  for  California,  and  settled  in 
practice  in  Siskiyou  County,  where  he  became  prosecuting 


368  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

attorney  for  the  county.     He  died  there  in  November,  1859, 
in  his  33d  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Horatio  Wells  Gridley,  son  of  Dr.  Horatio  Gridley 
(Yale  1815),  of  Kensington  Society  in  Berlin,  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  July  3,  1826. 

He  studied  medicine  in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  and  in 
New  York  City,  and  after  receiving  his  degree  of  M.D. 
at  Yale  in  January,  1850,  went  in  April  to  New  York,  where 
he  had  been  appointed  House  Physician  in  the  Bellevue 
Hospital.  He  died  there,  from  typhus  fever,  contracted  in 
the  hospital,  on  March  29,  1851,  in  his  25th  year. 

William  Alexander  Gunton  was  born  on  November 
19,  1826,  the  son  of  Dr.  William  Gunton,  of  Washington, 
District  of  Columbia. 

He  studied  law  in  Baltimore,  and  on  June  20,  1848^  mar- 
ried Mary  R.  N.,  daughter  of  John  Beans  Mullikin,  of 
Prince  George  County,  Maryland,  and  sister  of  John  C. 
Mullikin  (Yale  1844). 

About  the  same  date,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  gave 
up  his  professional  prospects,  and  retired  to  a  plantation  in 
Prince  George's  County,  nine  miles  from  Washington. 

On  March  28,  1854,  he  was  severely  injured  by  a  fall 
from  his  horse  in  the  streets  of  Washington,  in  a  collision 
with  a  frightened  horse  attached  to  a  dray.  He  died  in 
Washington  on  April  i,  in  his  28tli  year. 

His  wife  died  on  February  20,  1853,  in  her  27th  year. 
Their  only  child  died  in  infancy. 

DuGALD  Cameron  Haight,  the  younger  son  of  Fletcher 
Mathews  Haight  (Hamilton  Coll.  1818)  and  Elizabeth 
Stewart  (MacLachlan)  Haight,  of  Rochester,  New  York, 
was  born  in  Bath  on  May  27,  1827.  A  brother  was  grad- 
uated here  in  1844. 

His  family  having  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in 
1846,  he  began  the  study  of  law  there  with  his  father,  but 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 847  369 

Spent  part  of  the  first  year  in  a  telegraph  office  in  Quincy, 
Illinois.  He  began  practice  in  St.  Louis,  but  sailed  from 
New  York  City  in  January,  1852,  for  California  on  a 
business  visit.  The  steamer  on  which  he  sailed  arrived  off 
Chagres,  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  in  the  evening  of 
January  21,  and  some  of  the  passengers  attempted  to  land, 
in  a  rough  sea;  among  them  was  Mr.  Haight,  who  was 
drowned  by  the  swamping  of  the  boat  in  which  he 
embarked.     He  was  in  his  25th  year,  and  was  unmarried. 

Francis  Louis  Hodges,  son  of  Dr.  Lewis  Hodges,  of 
West  Bloomfield,  Ontario  County,  New  York,  was  born  on 
January  23,  1825.  His  mother,  Susan  Bacon,  was  a  sister 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon  (Yale  1820).  He  entered 
Yale  in  1844,  his  residence  then  being  in  Canandaigua. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  for  a  few  months  in  the 
Yale  Law  School,  and  then  took  a  school  in  Pittsfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  continued  his  studies  in  the  office  of 
the  Hon.  Julius  Rockwell  (Yale  1826). 

In  May,  185 1,  he  entered  on  a  tutorship  at  Yale,  where 
he  remained  for  only  one  year.  In  September,  1852,  he 
settled  in  New  York  City  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  attained 
a  good  position  as  the  principal  attorney  in  the  office  of 
the  Corporation  Counsel. 

In  July,  1853,  he  went  to  his  mother's  house  in  Geneva, 
New  York,  for  a  vacation,  and  died  there,  after  a  brief 
illness,  on  July  27,  in  his  29th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

George  Washington  Hollister,  the  youngest  child  of 
Abner  and  Polly  Woodbridge  (Elwell)  Hollister,  of  Cato, 
Cayuga  County,  New  York,  was  born  on  March  27,  1826. 

After  a  short  interval  of  teaching  a  district  school  near 
Syracuse,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  that  city  with  John 
G.  Forbes,  and  continued  it  with  his  eldest  brother,  Madison 
E.  Hollister,  in  Ottawa,  LaSalle  County,  Illinois. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1850,  and  removed  to  what 
is  now  the  State  of  Nebraska.     On  April  3,   1855.  while 

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37°  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

engaged  with  two  companions  in  surveying  land  in  Bellevue, 
an  altercation  arose  between  Mr.  Hollister  and  one  of  the 
others,  and  Hollister  was  fatally  shot  by  the  third,  in  a 
misapprehension  of  his  intentions.  He  was  29  years  old, 
and  unmarried. 

Lewis  Burr  Jennings,  the  youngest  child  of  Captain 
Abraham  Gold  and  Anna  (Burr)  Jennings,  of  Fairfield, 
Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  28,  1826,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1844.  Two  nephews  were  graduated  here,  in  1880 
and  1887,  respectively. 

In  the  winter  after  graduation  he  went  South,  and 
taught  in  Georgia  for  a  few  months,  until  unfitted  by  illness. 
He  returned  to  the  North  in  September,  and  remained  at 
home  through  the  winter  in  poor  health.  In  May,  1849,  he 
undertook  mercantile  life  in  New  York,  and  after  many 
interruptions  of  travel  and  recreation,  died  in  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  from  cholera,  on  March  17,  1853,  in  his 
27th  year. 

William  Henry  Lyman,  of  West  Gaines,  Orleans 
County,  New  York,  was  born  on  November  12,  1823,  and 
entered  Yale  in  1844. 

After  graduation  he  taught  school  in  Georgia  for  nearly 
a  year,  and  spent  the  early  part  of  the  next  winter  in  a 
counting-house  in  New  York. 

In  1849  he  went  to  California,  and  nothing  later  is  known. 

Lucius  Holly  Lyon,  the  eldest  son  of  Daniel  and  Han- 
nah (Holly)  Lyon,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  June  5,  1823,  and  entered  Yale  in  1844. 

He  spent  a  part  of  the  first  year  after  graduation  in  teach- 
ing, but  was  debarred  from  further  occupation  by  ill  health. 

He  died  in  Greenwich,  from  erysipelas  in  the  head,  on 
August  28,  1853,  in  his  31st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 


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William  Stewart  McKee,  son  of  Samuel  and  Margaret 
(McMillen)  McKee,  was  born  in  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  on 
March  31,  1824,  and  entered  Yale  in  1844. 

He  studied  law  in  St.  Louis  in  the  office  of  the  father  of 
his  classmate  Haight,  and  entered  on  practice  there,  but  was 
mainly  occupied  with  editing  the  St.  Louis  Democrat,  a  Free- 
Soil  newspaper,  until  his  death,  in  St.  Louis,  on  October 
I3>  1854,  in  his  31st  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Philemon  Ferdinand  McLallen  was  born  in  Trumans- 
burg,  Tompkins  County,  New  York,  on  August  20,  1823, 
and  entered  Yale  in  1844. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law,  and  on  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  settled  in  Trumansburg. 

In  1850  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  began 
practice.  He  died  there,  after  a  brief  illness,  of  a  malig- 
nant fever,  on  June  4,  1853,  in  his  30th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 

Charles  Heyward  Manigault,  the  eldest  son  of  Charles 
and  Elizabeth  (Heyward)  Manigault,  was  born  in  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  on  April  12,  1826,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1845. 

The  year  after  graduation  was  spent  in  foreign  travel, 
and  he  then  spent  nearly  a  year  in  a  counting-house  in 
New  York. 

His  later  years  were  years  of  leisure,  mostly  passed  at 
the  North.  He  died  at  a  hotel  in  New  York,  from  injuries 
received  at  a  fire,  on  December  3,  1856,  in  his  31st  year. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Nathaniel  Williams  Manning,  the  second  son  of  John 
and  Lois  (Williams)  Manning,  of  Lebanon.  Connecticut, 
was  born  on  June  28,  1820,  and  came  to  College  with  the 
ministry  in  view. 

Before  graduation  he  had  secured  a  place  to  teach  in 
Rockville ;   but  in  the  fall  he  returned  home,  laboring  under 


372  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

a  chronic  inflammation  of  the  throat,  which  extended  to 
the  lungs,  and  caused  his  death,  from  a  Hngering  consump- 
tion, in  Lebanon,  on  October  28,  1848,  in  his  29th  year. 

Hezekiah  Davis  Martin  was  born  in  Paris,  Bourbon 
County,  Kentucky,  on  November  8,  1827,  and  entered  Yale 
in  1845. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  but  on  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
California  he  went  to  that  region. 

He  returned  and  studied  medicine  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  receiving 
the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1853. 

He  then  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  near  Areola,  in 
Douglas  County,  Illinois,  and  settled  there  for  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  On  October  9,  1856,  he  married  Ellen 
Wood,  of  his  native  county. 

In  August,  1862,  he  raised  a  company  of  volunteers  for 
the  war  (Company  K,  79th  Regiment,  Illinois),  which  he 
commanded  until  his  death. 

On  June  25,  1863,  he  was  wounded  in  the  thigh  in  a 
skirmish  at  Liberty  Gap,  Tennessee.  He  was  taken  to 
Murfreesboro,  where  he  died  on  July  3,  in  his  36th  year. 

His  wife  survived  him,  with  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

Nathaniel  Matson,  elder  son  of  Israel  and  Phebe  Mat- 
son,  of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  October  18,  1825. 
His  mother  was  a  sister  of  Elias  H.  Ely  (Yale  1810). 

He  studied  law  for  a  year  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and 
then  entered  the  office  of  William  N.  Matson  (Yale  1833), 
of  Hartford. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  summer  of  1849,  and 
practiced  in  Hartford  until  his  death  there,  after  a  short 
illness,  on  January  24,  1851,  in  his  26th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 

John  Munn  was  born  in  Monson,  Massachusetts,  on 
May  30,  1822. 


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Before  graduation  he  had  begun  to  teach  in  the  Academy 
in  Monson,  where  he  had  been  prepared  for  College,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1848  he  began  law-studies  in  the  office  of 
the  Hon.  George  Ashmun  (Yale  1823),  of  Springfield. 

In  October,  1849,  ^^  ^'^^  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  opened 
an  office  in  Springfield.  He  had  already  shown  consumptive 
symptoms,  which  now  developed  rapidly.  He  was  confined 
to  his  bed  early  in  January,  1850,  and  died  on  the  30th  of 
that  month,  in  his  28th  year.     He  was  buried  in  Monson. 

He  was  to  have  been  married,  in  the  fall  of  1850,  to  a 
Monson  lady. 

John  Hull  Olmsted,  younger  son  of  John  and  Charlotte 
Law  (Hull)  Olmsted,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  September  2,  1825.  He  entered  Yale  in  1842,  but  after 
the  opening  of  the  Sophomore  year,  having  trouble  with 
both  his  eyes  and  lungs,  he  went  to  the  West  Indies  for 
the  winter,  and  on  his  return  joined  the  next  Class. 

He  spent  the  year  after  graduation  in  a  water-cure  estab- 
lishment in  New  York,  and  on  a  farm  on  Staten  Island,  and 
then  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  New  York.  After 
various  interruptions  on  account  of  his  health,  his  medical 
studies  were  nearly  completed  in  1851,  and  he  was  married, 
in  the  same  summer,  to  Mary  Perkins,  of  Staten  Island. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1852  from  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  did  not,  however,  engage 
in  practice,  but  spent  most  of  his  time  in  literary  pursuits. 

While  in  Europe  for  his  health,  he  died  in  Nice.  Italy,  on 
November  24,  1857,  in  his  33d  year. 

He  left  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  His  widow  next  mar- 
ried his  elder  brother,  Frederick  Law  Olmsted.  LL.D.  (Yale 
1893),  the  distinguished  landscape-architect. 

William  John  Powell,  son  of  General  John  and  Molly 
(McGregor)  Powell,  of  Berlin,  Worcester  County.  Mary- 
land, was  born  on  November  15,  1826. 


374  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  studied  law  at  home,  but  in  1849  went  to  California 
for  several  years.  After  his  return  he  studied  medicine  in 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1859. 

He  settled  in  practice  in  Louisiana,  and  during  the  Civil 
War  served  as  a  surgeon  in  the  Confederate  army. 

He  was  drowned  while  crossing  a  lake  near  his  home  on 
May  10,  1871,  in  his  45th  year. 

Thomas  Waltham  Renshaw,  son  of  Robinson  and  Mar- 
garet (Waltham)  Renshaw,  of  Baltimore,  was  born  at 
Davisville,  near  Baltimore,  on  April  23,  1823. 

He  studied  law  in  Baltimore,  and  for  a  time  practiced  his 
profession  in  Westminster.  He  was  also  employed  as  a 
civil  engineer.  He  kept  up  his  classical  studies,  and  pre- 
pared for  publication  a  translation  of  Justinian's  Institutes. 
In  1860-61  he  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  Maryland. 

He  died  at  Roland  Park,  in  the  suburbs  of  Baltimore,  on 
January  16,  1890,  in  his  67th  year.     He  was  never  married. 

Linus  Burr  Smith  was  born  in  Haddam,  Connecticut, 
on  April  14,  18 18,  and  was  the  oldest  member  of  the  Class 
at  graduation. 

On  graduation  he  took  charge  of  a  school  in  Lyme,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1848  began  the  study  of  medicine  at  home. 
In  October,  1848,  he  went  to  New  York,  where  he  continued 
his  studies  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  185 1. 

He  then  began  practice,  and  continued  there  until  his 
health  failed  early  in  1854.  He  then  returned  home,  where 
he  died  of  consumption  on  April  30,  at  the  age  of  36. 

Henry  Sherwood  Steele,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Sherwood)  Steele,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
September  5,  1828.     His  father  died  in  his  infancy,  and  he 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 847  375 

spent  the  first  three  years  of  his  College  course  in  Trinity 
College. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Albany,  where  a  brother  of  his 
father  was  a  prominent  citizen,  for  two  years,  under  the 
direction  of  Dr.  James  H.  Armsby,  and  in  September,  1849, 
went  to  California  by  the  overland  route,  but  returned  to  his 
studies  in  Albany  in  February,  1851. 

For  the  improvement  of  his  failing  health,  in  June,  1852, 
he  removed  to  Illinois,  and  settled  in  Dixon,  Lee  County. 
He  completed  his  preparation  in  Chicago  the  next  winter, 
and  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  there  in  the  spring  of  1853. 

He  then  began  practice  in  Dixon,  but  soon  realized  that 
he  could  not  bear  the  confinement.  He  spent  the  winter  of 
1854-55  with  a  relative  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  and 
the  following  winter  in  Florida.  In  August,  1856,  he 
returned  to  Roxbury,  with  the  intention  of  going  again  to 
Florida  for  the  cold  weather,  but  he  sank  gradually  until  his 
death  on  March  18,  1857,  unmarried,  in  his  29th  year. 

Samuel  Copp  Waring,  son  of  Samuel  and  Maria  A. 
(Copp)  Waring,  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  August  18, 
1826.  During  his  College  course  his  mother,  then  a  widow, 
lived  in  New  Haven.  His  only  brother  was  graduated  here 
in  1849. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  New  York,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  185 1. 

He  also  studied  in  Paris,  and  on  his  return  from  Europe 
was  lost  in  the  wreck  of  the  steamer  Arctic,  on  September 
27,  1854,  in  his  29th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Henry  Fairchild  Wildman,  son  of  Fairchild  and  Polly 
(Canfield)  Wildman,  of  Danbury,  Connecticut,  was  bom  on 
October  9,  1826. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Benedict  &  Boardman,  of 
New  York  City,  his  boarding-place  being  in  Brooklyn. 


376  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  died  in  Brooklyn,  of  the  cholera,  after  a  few  hours' 
illness,  on  July  20,  1849,  in  his  23d  year.  He  was  buried  in 
Danbury. 

John  Wilson,  of  Huntsville,  Missouri,  was  born  on  June 
14,  1827,  and  entered  Yale  in  1845. 

After  studying  law  at  home,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  settled  in  St.  Joseph,  where  he  remained  in  successful 
practice  until  his  death,  on  December  2,  1867,  in  his  41st 
year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Cyrus  Elisha  Worrell,  of  Hertford  County,  North 
Carolina,  was  born  on  March  10,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  in 

1845- 

He  studied  medicine  in  Murfreesboro,  in  his  native 
county,  and  went  to  California  in  March,  1849,  returning  in 
June,  1857. 

He  died  in  Hertford  County  in  1874,  at  the  age  of  48. 

Antonio  Poma  Yancey,  son  of  James  Madison  Yancey, 
of  Murfreesboro,  Hertford  County,  North  Carolina,  was 
born  on  October  21,  1825.  His  mother,  Ann  (or  Nancy) 
Harrell,  was  previously  the  wife  of  Dr.  William  Lay  Smith 
(Yale  1802),  of  Murfreesboro,  and  mother  of  the  Hon. 
William  Nathan  Harrell  Smith  (Yale  1834).  He  entered 
College  in  1844. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  half-brother,  and 
immediately  on  his  admission  to  the  bar,  in  the  latter  part 
of  1848,  was  elected  State  Solicitor,  or  Prosecuting  Attorney 
in  Hertford  County. 

He  had  shown,  while  in  College,  symptoms  of  pulmonary 
disease,  and  these  gained  strength  from  month  to  month,  so 
that  he  was  finally  obliged  to  seek  a  more  favorable  climate. 
He  left  home  in  November,  1854,  for  Charleston,  and  died 
two  or  three  days  later,  while  en  route,  in  Wilmington, 
North  Carolina,  on  November  26,  at  the  age  of  29.  He 
was  unmarried. 


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CLASS    OF    1848 

Austin  Arnold  was  born  in  Middle  Haddam,  a  village  in 
Chatham,  Connecticut,  on  May  28,  1821,  a  son  of  Gideon 
and  Lucy  (Hurd)  Arnold. 

He  entered  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York 
City  in  December,  1848,  but  was  obliged  to  leave  two 
months  later  on  account  of  bleeding  at  the  lungs.  In 
March,  1849,  he  left  New  York  on  a  California  vessel  for 
Valparaiso;  but  decided  to  go  on,  and  spent  the  winter  in 
San  Jose.  He  returned  in  1850  by  way  of  the  Isthmus, 
reaching  home  in  July,  so  much  exhausted  that  he  died 
there  on  August  15,  in  his  30th  year. 

John  Allen  Barnard,  son  of  Captain  Frederic  and  Mar- 
garet (Allen)  Barnard,  of  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  was 
born  in  1828.  Three  brothers  were  graduated  here,  in 
1837,  1841,  and  1847,  respectively. 

He  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Pough- 
keepsie in  1 85 1. 

Subsequently  he  became  a  civil  engineer,  and  acquired 
considerable  reputation  as  chief  engineer  of  the  London  & 
Port  Henry  Railroad. 

He  went  later  to  Chili,  and  was  engaged  in  railroad  con- 
struction. While  building  a  line  from  Santiago  to  Valpa- 
raiso he  suffered  a  sunstroke,  from  the  effects  of  which 
he  died,  on  November  20,  1870,  in  his  43d  year.  He  was 
buried  in  Santiago. 

John  Bates  was  born  in  Sumter,  South  Carolina,  in 
May,  1825.  His  residence  while  in  College  was  in  Pineville, 
a  village  near  Nanafalia,  Marengo  County,  Alabama. 

He  intended  to  study  law,  but  the  precarious  state  of  his 
health  at  that  time  determined  him  to  pursue  a  more  active 
employment. 

His  life  was  mainly  spent  on  his  farm  in  Marengo  County, 
until  his  death  there,  in  1859. 


378  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

He  married,  in  Mobile,  on  February  7,  1856,  Miss  S.  E. 
Overall,  by  whom  he  had  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

Clinton  Capers  Brown,  son  of  Colonel  B.  H.  Brown, 
was  born  on  July  16,  1827,  in  Barnwell,  South  Carolina. 

He  studied  law  at  home  with  William  A.  Owens,  and 
after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  May,  1850,  became  a  part- 
ner of  Mr.  Owens. 

In  December,  1850,  he  was  appointed  Aide-de-Camp  by 
Governor  Means,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel. 

He  died  in  Barnwell  on  January  29,  1852,  in  his  25th 
year,  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  and  chronic  affection  of 
the  heart. 

Marshall  Mason  Fitch,  son  of  Mason  Cogswell  Fitch 
(Williams  Coll.  1815),  of  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  grand- 
son of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ebenezer  Fitch  (Yale  1777),  was  born 
on  March  6,  1828.  His  mother  was  Ann  Maria,  daughter 
of  Charles  Paxson,  of  Philadelphia.  He  entered  Yale  at 
the  opening  of  Sophomore  year,  and  was  obliged  to  go  home 
in  the  spring  of  Senior  year,  on  account  of  his  father's 
illness. 

His  father  died  in  November,  and  he  was  mainly  occupied 
with  the  settlement  of  the  estate  until  the  spring  of  1851. 
Meantime  a  slight  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs  had  induced 
him  to  give  up  his  plan  of  studying  for  the  ministry,  and 
he  entered  into  business  as  a  commission  merchant  in  New 
Albany,  in  the  firm  of  Morris  &  Fitch. 

On  February  26,  1850,  he  was  married  to  Mary  Lowrey, 
daughter  of  Captain  James  Montgomery,  of  New  Albany, 
who  died  on  November  24,  1852. 

He  died  in  New  Albany  on  January  29,  1854,  in  his  26th 
year. 

His  children  were  a  son  who  died  in  infancy,  and  a 
daughter. 

Edward  Burr  Harrison,  son  of  Lee  and  Sally  (Powell) 
Harrison,  of  Leesburg,  Virginia,  thirty  miles  northwest  of 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 848  379 

Washing-ton,  was  born  early  in  1827,  and  entered  Yale  at 
the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  read  law  at  home  and  in  the  University  of  Virginia 
until  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  the  summer  of  1851. 

He  then  engaged  in  practice  in  Leesburg,  until  his  death, 
from  consumption,  on  July  31,  1852,  in  his  26th  year.  He 
was  unmarried. 

Henry  Condict  Hedges,  son  of  Nathan  Hedges,  a  vet- 
eran teacher  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  was  bom  on  May  10, 
1828.  His  mother  was  Julia,  daughter  of  Stephen  Condit, 
of  Morristown.  He  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sopho- 
more year. 

He  was  associate  principal  in  his  father's  High  School 
in  Newark  until  May,  1850,  and  for  a  part  of  the  next 
year  was  a  member  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York. 

In  September,  1851,  he  engaged  in  business  in  New  York, 
and  at  the  end  of  1853  went  to  San  Francisco,  where  he 
remained  until  November,  1855,  employed  in  a  shipping 
house. 

For  the  rest  of  his  life  he  was  connected  with  the  paper 
warehouse  of  John  Priestley,  in  New  York,  at  first  as  clerk 
and  later  as  partner. 

He  died  in  New  York  on  February  25,  1859,  '"  '"'is  31st 
year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Shelton  Hollister,  the  eldest  child  of  Benjamin  and 
Prudence  (Hollister)  Hollister,  of  Glastonbury,  Connecti- 
cut, was  born  on  September  30,  1825. 

He  settled  in  St.  Anthony,  Minnesota  Territory,  in  the 
summer  of  185 1,  and  there  practiced  law. 

He  married,  on  February  16,  1853,  Anna  Lewis,  of  Phila- 
delphia, who  died  on  September  6,  1854.  Her  only  child 
died  in  infancy. 

He  next  married,  on  April  12,  1855,  Emily  Lord,  only 
child  of  the  late  Dr.  Royal  Kingsbury,  of  Marlborough,  Con- 


380  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

necticut,  whose  mother,  Emily  (Foote)  had  married  a  sec- 
ond time,  and  Hved  in  Glastonbury;  and  he  died  on  April 
29,  of  cholera,  in  St.  Anthony,  in  his  30th  year. 

David  Sanford  Mowry,  the  second  son  of  Deacon 
Samuel  and  Rebecca  (Story)  Mowry,  of  Bozrah,  Connect- 
icut, was  born  on  March  10,  1827.  His  residence  while  in 
College  was  in  Norwich. 

He  had  just  begun  the  study  of  law  in  Fairfield  with  the 
father  of  his  classmate,  Osborne,  when  he  died,  of  typhoid 
fever,  on  November  14,  1848,  in  his  22d  year. 

Franklin  LaFayette  Plimpton,  son  of  Warren  and 
Samantha  (Partridge)  Plimpton,  of  Sturbridge,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  on  September  8,  1824. 

He  had  intended  to  study  for  the  ministry,  but  he  suffered 
from  pulmonary  disease  before  graduation. 

While  visiting  in  Monson  he  died  there,  of  consumption, 
on  January  8,  1849,  in  his  25th  year. 

Isaac  Turner  Rathbone,  the  youngest  child  of  Samuel 
Rathbone,  a  merchant  of  New  York  City,  and  Mary 
(Turner)  Rathbone,  was  born  in  New  York  on  July  26, 
1821.  His  father  removed  to  Buffalo  in  1841,  and  the  son 
spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  College  course  in  Madison, 
now  Colgate  University. 

He  went  to  Cincinnati  on  graduation,  as  a  private  tutor 
in  the  family  of  the  Hon.  Mr.  Ewing.  He  died  there,  of 
cholera,  on  June  12,  1849,  in  his  28th  year. 

He  was  already  a  licensed  Baptist  preacher,  and  was 
intending  to  enter  the  ministry. 

Robert  Martin  Richardson,  son  of  John  Richardson,  of 
Philadelphia,  was  born  on  October  3,  1828. 

He  studied  law  in  Philadelphia,  and  in  185 1  for  reasons 
of  health  went  abroad,  where  he  continued  his  studies  in 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 848  381 

Paris.     He  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar  in  1854, 

but  died  there  on  April  19,  1855,  in  his  27th  year.  He  was 
unmarried. 


John  Thomas  Shoener  was  born  in  Schuylkill  County, 
Pennsylvania,  on  June  30,  1829,  and  entered  College  from 
Orwigsburg  in  that  county  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

After  studying  law  in  Pottsville,  with  Judge  Edwin  O. 
Parry,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  December,  1852,  and 
began  practice  in  that  place. 

He  married,  on  April  7,  1857,  Theresa  Martin,  of  Potts- 
ville, by  whom  he  had  one  child  who  died  in  infancy. 

The  promise  of  a  succcessful  career  was  cut  short  by  his 
death,  in  Pottsville,  on  November  13,  i860,  in  his  32d  year. 

Cyprian  George  Webster,  son  of  Cyprian  and  Agnes 
(Thomson)  Webster,  v/as  born  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  on 
September  12,  1825.  He  was  elected  Class  Orator  at  grad- 
uation, and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  gifted  men  in 
the  Class. 

He  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  IMobile  in 
December,  1848.  In  June,  1849,  he  sailed  for  San  Fran- 
cisco, partly  on  business,  and  partly  for  the  sake  of  health. 

After  a  month's  residence  there,  he  returned  much 
enfeebled,  and  died  in  Mobile  of  consumption  on  October 
30,  1850,  in  his  26th  year. 

George  Arthur  Wetherell,  son  of  John  and  Clarissa 
(Sigoumey)  Wetherell,  of  Oxford,  Worcester  County, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  on  October  30,  1825. 

He  studied  law  with  his  brother  (Yale  1844)  in  Wor- 
cester, and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  185 1  he  prac- 
ticed in  partnership  with  his  brother  until  his  death,  at  his 
father's  house  in  Oxford,  on  September  23,  1858,  in  his  33d 
year.     He  was  unmarried. 


382  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

CLASS    OF    1849 

Charles  Henry  Foote  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Alabama, 
on  August  17,  1828.  His  mother,  Mrs.  Matilda  Foote,  was 
living  when  he  entered  Yale,  his  father  being  deceased. 

He  studied  law  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  and  in  1852  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Batesville,  Independence 
County,  Arkansas,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  though 
during  a  part  of  the  time  engaged  in  teaching,  in  Batesville, 
and  in  Jacksonport,  about  twenty  miles  distant. 

He  died  while  on  a  visit  in  Memphis,  on  July  8,  1857,  in 
his  29th  year. 

Charles  Rush  Goodrich,  the  second  son  of  Josiah  B. 
and  Mary  (Dater)  Goodrich,  was  born  on  March  16,  1829, 
in  Brunswick,  a  village  near  Troy,  New  York,  and  entered 
Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  remained  in  New  Haven  for  a  year  as  a  resident 
graduate  student ;  and  then  went  to  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
where  he  taught  for  one  year,  and  then  pursued  medical 
studies  for  two  years. 

During  the  latter  part  of  1853  and  the  early  part  of 
1854  he  was  associated  with  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman, 
Junior  (Yale  1837),  in  editing  the  Illustrated  Record  of  the 
industrial  exhibition  recently  held  in  New  York  City. 

He  then  visited  Georgia  on  account  of  consumptive  symp- 
toms, and  returned  to  his  father's  residence,  then  in  Flush- 
ing, Long  Island. 

In  1855  he  began  the  preparation  of  a  book  on  botany, 
and  undertook  some  other  literary  work;  but  about  the  ist 
of  July  he  was  prostrated  by  a  severe  hemorrhage,  and  he 
died  at  his  home  in  Flushing  on  August  22,  in  his  27th  year. 

Henry  Mills  Haskell,  son  of  Ezra  Haskell  (Yale 
181 1 ),  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  May  10, 
1827.  His  family  removed  to  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  in 
1840.     A  brother  was  graduated  in  185 1. 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 849  383 

After  graduation  he  spent  three  years  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School.  During  the  following  years  he  was  engaged  in 
further  study  and  in  occasional  preaching,  until  March  6, 
1855,  when  he  was  ordained  in  Boston  to  the  charge  of  the 
British  and  American  Church  in  St.  Petersburg,  Russia. 
He  reached  St.  Petersburg  on  June  i,  and  had  begun  to 
prosecute  his  labors  there  when  prostrated  in  October  by 
fatal  illness.  He  died  in  St.  Petersburg  of  typhus  fever, 
on  October  31,  in  his  29th  year.     He  was  unmarried. 

Horace  Hollister,  Junior,  tlie  second  son  of  Horace  and 
Sarah  (Lee)  Hollister,  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut,  was  born 
on  June  3,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  at  the  opening  of  Sopho- 
more year. 

He  taught  for  a  year  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  in 
October,  1850,  removed  to  Mobile,  Alabama,  on  account  of 
his  health. 

From  that  date  he  taught  in  Mobile,  at  the  same  time 
studying  law,  until  his  death  there,  from  yellow  fever,  on 
September  10,  1853,  ^^  ^^^  ^^^^  year.  This  was  the  first 
death  in  the  Class.     He  was  unmarried. 

Joseph  Hurlbut,  Junior,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
Joseph  Hurlbut  (Yale  1818),  was  born  in  New  York  City 
on  February  19,  1828.  His  father  returned  to  New  London, 
his  native  place,  in  1833. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  theology  in  the 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York ;  but  a  year  later 
went  to  Beloit  College  as  Tutor  for  one  year.  He  then 
resumed  his  studies  in  the  Andover  Theological  Seminar)-, 
and  in  May,  1852,  accepted  a  tutorship  at  Yale,  which  he 
held  until  July,  1854,  besides  studying  for  the  year  1852-53 
in  the  Divinity  School. 

Impaired  health  then  obliged  him  to  return  to  his  home 
in  New  London,  which  he  left  in  May,  1855,  for  a  European 
trip;  but  he  died,  of  consumption,  in  Paris,  on  July  4.  in  his 
28th  year. 


384  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Aaron  Lyon,  son  of  Corbin  and  Rebecca  (Vinton)  Lyon, 
was  born  in  Southbridge,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts, 
on  August  14,  1824. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  at  home, 
and  in  185 1  began  practice  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Stur- 
bridge,  where  he  married,  on  May  26,  1852,  Mary  J.  Porter. 

He  died  in  Sturbridge,  after  three  months'  final  illness,  of 
consumption,  on  August  22,  1858,  at  the  age  of  34,  leaving 
one  son. 

His  widow  next  married  Charles  Fuller,  of  Sturbridge. 

Hugh  Florien  Peters,  son  of  William  Thompson  Peters 
(Yale  1825)  and  Etha  L.  Peters,  of  New  Haven,  was  born 
on  June  14,  1829.  He  was  a  grandson  of  Ithiel  Town,  the 
architect. 

He  studied  law  in  Litchfield,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  December,  185 1,  by  which  time  his  father  had  removed  to 
Cheshire.     He  then  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Cheshire. 

From  November,  1853,  to  May,  1854,  he  taught  in  Dux- 
bury,  Massachusetts;  and  in  the  ensuing  September  he 
secured  an  appointment  in  the  Tidal  Division  of  the  United 
States  Coast  Survey.  In  the  summer  of  1855  ^^^  became  a 
clerk  in  the  Pension  Bureau  at  Washington,  but  returned 
home  shortly  before  his  death,  from  consumption,  in 
Cheshire,  on  October  4,  1856,  in  his  28th  year. 

Charles  Bill  Waring,  younger  son  of  Samuel  and 
Maria  A.  (Copp)  Waring,  of  New  York  City,  was  born  on 
April  15,  1828,  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  1848. 
He  left  that  Class  soon  after  the  beginning  of  Sophomore 
year,  and  joined  the  next  Class  in  the  ensuing  fall.  A 
brother  was  graduated  in  1847.  Their  mother,  a  widow, 
lived  in  New  Haven  while  her  sons  were  here. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Law  School  from  his 
graduation  until  May,  1851  ;  and  then  went  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May,  1852,  and 
entered  into  partnership  with  John  R.  Harper  (Yale  1848). 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  185O  385 

He  died  in  New  York,  of  quick  consumption,  following  an 
attack  of  pneumonia,  on  October  12,  1854,  in  his  27th  year. 

He  was  married,  on  May  2,  1850,  to  Frances  (or  Fanny), 
daughter  of  James  L.  Morris,  of  New  York,  by  whom  he 
had  a  son,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  a  daughter.  His  wife 
long  survived  him. 

CLASS   OF    1850 

John  Isaac  Ira  Adams,  eldest  child  of  the  Rev.  John 
Adams,  a  Methodist  preacher,  and  Sarah  (Sanderson) 
Adams,  was  born  in  Edgartown,  Martha's  Vineyard,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  July  22,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  in  1845  with 
a  brother,  who  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1849.  He 
left  College  in  May,  1846,  and  joined  the  next  Class  at  the 
beginning  of  the  course. 

In  1845-46  his  father  was  living  in  New  Haven,  and  at 
his  graduation  in  Durham,  New  Hampshire ;  and  he  taught 
there  and  in  the  vicinity  until  February,  1853. 

On  May  26,  1853,  he  was  married  to  Helen  Mary  Brans- 
combe,  of  Newmarket,  daughter  of  Arthur  Branscombe,  and 
soon  after  became  Principal  of  the  High  School  in  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  during  the  same  time  also  editing  the 
Holyoke  Independent. 

His  health  failing,  he  removed  to  Lawrence,  Kansas  Ter- 
ritory, in  the  spring  of  1857,  and  while  there  served  as  cor- 
respondent of  the  Boston  Traveler  and  the  Springfield 
Republican.  He  died  in  Lawrence,  on  October  16.  1857.  in 
his  32d  year,  and  was  buried  in  Durham,  New  Hampshire. 

He  left  one  son.  His  widow  married  Alonzo  J.  Ulman, 
of  St.  Louis. 

Cltnton  Camp,  son  of  Colonel  Hermon  and  Caroline 
(Cook)  Camp,  of  Trumansburg,  Tompkins  County,  New 
York,  was  born  on  December  19,  1829,  and  entered  Yale 
from  Williams  College  at  the  opening  of  Junior  year. 

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386  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

At  graduation  he  was  awarded  the  Berkeley  and  Clark 
scholarships,  and  he  remained  for  one  year  on  these  founda- 
tions, at  the  same  time  also  teaching. 

In  September,  1851,  he  sailed  for  Germany,  and  studied 
in  Berlin  for  one  semester.  He  then  went  to  Gottingen,  and 
studied  there  until  taken  with  a  serious  cough  and  slight 
hemorrhage  from  the  lungs.  In  January,  1853,  he  left 
Gottingen  for  Pisa,  Italy,  where  he  died  on  May  17,  in  his 
24th  year. 

He  was  intending  to  enter  the  ministry. 

Edward  Payson  Clarke,  the  only  son  of  the  Rev.  Tertius 
Strong  Clarke  (Yale  1824)  and  Almira  Alcott  (Marshall) 
Clarke,  of  (South)  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on 
July  4,  1 83 1.  He  entered  Yale  from  Williams  College  at 
the  opening  of  Senior  year,  when  his  father  was  settled  in 
Stockbridge. 

About  the  time  of  his  graduation  the  family  removed  to 
Penn  Yan,  Yates  County,  New  York,  where  he  spent  more 
than  two  years,  pursuing  a  thorough  and  systematic  course 
of  reading,  in  preparation  for  a  literary  life. 

The  family  then  removed  again,  to  Franklin,  in  Delaware 
County,  where  he  died,  of  pulmonary  consumption,  on  Sep- 
tember I,  1853,  in  his  23d  year.  A  younger  sister  after- 
wards married  his  friend  and  former  classmate,  Professor 
Evan  W.  Evans  (Yale  1851). 

George  Walter  Crane,  son  of  the  Rev.  John  R.  Crane 
(Princeton  Coll.  1805)  and  Harriet  (Burnet)  Crane,  of 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  May  30,  1828.  A 
brother  was  graduated  in  1838. 

During  his  Junior  year,  in  February,  1849,  he  was 
attacked  with  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  and  he  was  laid 
aside  during  most  of  Senior  year  from  a  similar  cause. 
The  Class  received  their  degrees  on  August  15,  1850,  and 
he  died  in  Middletown  on  August  22,  in  his  23d  year. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1850  387 

Richard  Lamb,  the  eldest  son  of  William  W.  Lamb,  of 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  was  born  on  June  23,  1830,  and  entered 
Yale  in  1845,  but  soon  left  that  Class,  to  return  a  year  later. 

On  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  In  the 
spring  of  1852  he  took  the  place  of  a  friend  in  the  New 
York  Hospital,  to  enable  him  to  visit  relatives  in  the  West, 
and  there  overtaxed  his  strength,  and  on  his  return  home 
at  the  end  of  July  was  prostrated  by  a  lumbar  abscess,  which 
caused  his  death,  after  a  very  painful  illness,  in  Norfolk,  on 
October  3,  in  his  23d  year. 

William  Haughton  Richards,  son  of  Henry  Augustus 
and  Julia  Ann  (Haughton)  Richards,  of  Uncasville,  in 
Montville,  Connecticut,  and  a  nephew  of  Richard  Haughton 
(Yale  1818)  and  of  the  Rev.  George  Richards  (Yale  1840), 
was  born  in  June,  1825.  The  family  removed  to  New  York 
City,  and  thence  to  Groton,  Massachusetts,  in  1841. 

For  two  years  he  taught  in  a  school  for  young  ladies  in 
Cincinnati,  in  the  meantime  also  studying  law.  He  began 
practice  in  New  York  City,  but  in  the  fall  of  1853  his 
health  began  to  fail,  and  for  a  year  he  was  a  partial 
invalid.  He  then  seemed  to  have  recovered,  and  resumed 
full  professional  labor,  but  died  in  Brooklyn,  of  brain  fever, 
after  four  days'  illness,  on  May  17,  1855,  in  his  30th 
year.  He  was  buried  in  New  London,  Connecticut,  the  old 
family  home. 

Robert  Smith  was  born  near  Nashville,  Tennessee,  on 
March  25,  1825.  His  residence  was  at  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky, while  in  College.  An  older  brother,  J.  Howard 
Smith,  was  an  Episcopal  minister. 

On  graduation  he  entered  the  Episcopal  Theological 
Seminary  near  Alexandria,  \''irginia,  and  soon  after  decided 
to  devote  his  life  to  the  heathen  in  Africa.  He  was 
admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  by  Bishop  Meade,  in  Alex- 
andria, on  July  15,  1853. 


388  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

In  October,  1854,  he  sailed  for  West  Africa,  and  arrived 
at  his  appointed  station,  Cavally,  Cape  Palmas,  in  January, 
1855.  After  a  brief  interval  of  labor,  he  was  taken  ill 
with  the  African  fever  in  April,  which  was  succeeded  by 
severe  dyspepsia  and  consumptive  symptoms.  He  died,  in 
great  pain,  on  May  24,  in  his  31st  year. 


CLASS  OF    185 1 

Horatio  Walsh  Brinsmade,  son  of  Thomas  C.  Brins- 
made,  M.D.  (hon.  Yale  1839),  and  Elizabeth  (Walsh) 
Brinsmade,  of  Lansingburg,  New  York,  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 25,   183 1.     His  father  removed  to  Troy  in  1833. 

He  took  up  the'  study  of  medicine  under  his  father's 
direction,  and  during  the  winter  of  1851-52  attended  medi- 
cal lectures  in  Albany.  In  his  journeys  to  and  from  home 
he  caught  a  cold  which  settled  on  his  lungs,  which  was 
followed  by  quick  consumption.  He  died  in  Troy  on  July 
25,  1852,  in  his  2ist  year. 

Andrew  Jackson  Burnham,  son  of  Noah  Burnham, 
was  born  in  Chester,  New  Hampshire,  on  July  2,  1829,  and 
entered  College  from  Concord. 

He  engaged  in  teaching,  principally  in  Newmarket,  and 
in  South  Braintree,  Massachusetts. 

He  married  Sarah  A.  West,  of  Concord,  in  1853. 

He  studied  medicine  in  the  Vemiont  Medical  College  in 
Woodstock,  and  practiced  in  his  native  State  in  Northwood 
and  New  Hampton. 

He  died  in  Concord  on  October  31,  1857,  in  his  29th 
year. 

Charles  Haskell,  son  of  Ezra  Haskell  (Yale  1811), 
was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  June  6,  1829.  A 
brother  was  graduated  in  1849.  His  father  removed  to 
Dover,  New  Hampshire,  in  1840. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    185I  389 

After  graduation  he  taught,  and  studied  theology.  He 
was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church 
by  Bishop  Chase,  of  New  Hampshire,  on  November  12, 
1852,  and  immediately  took  charge  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in 
Westfield,  Chautauqua  County,  New  York.  While  there 
an  enlargement  of  the  heart,  which  had  threatened  him  in 
College,  began  to  assume  so  serious  a  character  that  he  was 
taken  to  his  father's  house  in  Dover,  where  he  died,  on  May 
26,  1853,  at  the  age  of  24. 

Albert  Hebard,  the  eldest  child  of  the  Hon.  Learned 
and  Persis  Elizabeth  (Strong)  Hebard,  of  Lebanon,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  January  5,  1826.  A  brother  was 
graduated  in  i860. 

During  his  Senior  year  he  undertook  the  preparation  of 
a  new  catalogue  of  the  library  of  the  Brothers  in  Unity. 
The  labor  involved  proved  too  heavy,  and  he  went  home 
for  a  portion  of  the  spring  vacation  in  greatly  impaired 
health.  He  returned  on  May  12,  was  so  ill  as  to  be  obliged 
to  go  back  to  Lebanon  on  May  15,  and  died  suddenly  on 
May  18,  in  his  26th  year.  A  funeral  sermon  by  President 
Woolsey  was  published,  and  bears  the  heartiest  testimony  to 
his  high  Christian  character.  His  name  was  enrolled 
among  the  graduates  by  the  Corporation  at  Commencement. 

James  Richard  Hills,  son  of  Eleazar  and  Sarah  Wol- 
cott  Hills,  of  Auburn,  New  York,  was  born  on  May  24, 
1830.  His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Josiah  Bissell,  of 
Pittsfield,  Massachusetts.  He  entered  Yale  during  Sopho- 
more year. 

He  studied  law  in  the  AJbany  Law  School,  and  with 
Judge  William  Kent  in  New  York  City,  where  he  settled 
in  practice.  He  was  a  successful  lawyer,  and  greatly 
respected  as  an  active  Christian. 

After  having  suffered  for  a  year  from  bronchitis  and 
aneurism  of  the  aorta,  he  died  suddenly,  while  on  a  journey 


39©  BIOGRAPHICAL   NOTICES 

for  his  health,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  on  September  8,  1882, 
in  his  53d  year,  and  was  buried  in  Auburn.  He  was  never 
married. 

George  Hopkins,  son  of  John  and  Abiah  (Woodruff) 
Hopkins,  was  bom  in  that  part  of  Waterbury  which  is 
now  Naugatuck,  Connecticut,  in  1826. 

After  teaching  for  a  year  in  EHzabeth,  New  Jersey,  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City. 

He  died  while  on  a  visit  home,  in  December,  1853,  in  his 
28th  year. 

David  Lewis  Judsox,  the  eldest  child  of  Hon.  Donald 
and  Polly  Maria  (Shelton)  Judson,  of  Huntington.  Con- 
necticut, was  born  on  December  6,  1830.  His  father 
removed  to  Derby  in  1835,  ^"^  *^J^d  j^st  before  he  entered 
College. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School  for  nearly  two 
years,  and  afterwards  engaged  in  farming  and  manufactur- 
ing in  Derby,  where  he  died  on  March  18,  1858,  in  his  28th 
year. 

George  Washington  Lyon,  the  only  son  of  Lsrael  and 
Eunice  Elvira  (Raymond)  Lyon,  of  Bedford,  New  York, 
was  born  on  October  14,  1828. 

In  the  fall  of  1851,  while  residing  in  Mount  Kisco,  he 
was  elected  to  the  New  York  Assembly  by  a  large  majority, 
and  served  one  term  (January-April,  1852),  but  did  not 
wish  to  run  for  office  again. 

He  studied  medicine,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1856. 

He  practiced  his  profession  for  three  or  four  years  in 
New  York,  and  then  settled  in  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  where 
he  married,  in  i860,  Abby  L.  Duncan.  He  had  a  successful 
career  as  a  physician,  until  his  death  there,  after  an  illness 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1 85 1  39 1 

of  several  months,   from  consumption  of   the  bowels,  on 
November  23,  1875,  in  his  48th  year. 
His  wife  survived  him,  without  children. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Martin,  son  of  Jacob  Martin,  of 
Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in  1828  or  1829. 

He  returned  to  Lancaster,  and  entered  very  early  into 
political  life,  being  elected  to  the  State  House  of  Represen- 
tatives for  1852;  but  his  exertions  in  the  preliminary  can- 
vass induced  a  bronchial  affection,  which  caused  his  death 
on  August  26,  at  the  age  of  23. 

James  Lewis  Rowland,  son  of  Isaac  Rowland,  was  born 
in  New  York  City  in  1826,  and  entered  Yale  in  the  spring 
of  1849  from  Milton,  near  Saratoga  Springs,  New  York. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  was  a  farmer  in  Milton. 

His  later  history  is  not  definitely  known. 

Noah  Smith  was  born  in  Westville,  near  Urbana,  Cham- 
paign County,  Ohio,  on  July  i,  1830.  He  entered  Yale  at 
the  opening  of  the  Junior  year,  having  already  spent  three 
years  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  at  Delaware. 

His  health  began  to  fail  near  the  end  of  his  College 
course,  but  he  undertook  the  study  of  medicine  after  grad- 
uation. In  May,  1852,  he  was  obliged  to  desist,  and  he 
spent  the  next  winter  in  Florida  and  Cuba,  returning  in 
April  to  Westville,  where  he  died  on  July  7,  1853,  at  the 
age  of  23  years. 

James  VanBlarcom,  son  of  Brant  and  Getty  (VanRiper) 
VanBlarcom,  was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  on  May 
I,  1829. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Peter  D.  Vroom  (Columbia 
Coll.  1808)  in  Trenton,  until  Mr.  Vroom  went  as  United 
States  Minister  to  Russia  in  1853.  He  then  completed  his 
studies  with  the  Hon.  Abraham  O.  Zabriskie    (Princeton 


392  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

Coll.  1825),  in  Jersey  City,  after  which  he  went  to  Berlin 
for  the  study  of  German. 

He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Paterson,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  his  death,  with  the  exception  of  the  period  of 
his  service  (1862-65)  in  the  25th  Regiment,  New  Jersey 
Volunteers,  during  the  Civil  War. 

He  died  in  Paterson  on  October  22,  1876,  in  his  48th  year. 

Emerson  Cogswell  Whitney,  the  eldest  son  of  Richard 
and  Eunice  (Cogswell)  Whitney,  of  Winchendon,  Worces- 
ter County,  Massachusetts,  was  born  on  November  8,  1822, 
and  entered  Yale  from  Dartmouth  College  at  the  opening 
of  Junior  year. 

He  began  work  as  an  assistant  in  the  Academy  in  Middle- 
town,  Orange  County,  New  York,  in  April  of  Senior  year, 
and  after  hard  study  in  the  summer  vacation,  he  went  back 
to  Middletown  in  November,  in  impaired  health.  He  died 
there,  of  typhus  fever,  after  a  little  over  a  week's  illness, 
on  December  2,  in  his  30th  year. 

He  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  unusual  promise. 


CLASS  OF    1852 

James  Atwood  was  born  in  Huntsville,  Alabama,  on  July 
4,  1832,  and  entered  Yale  in  January  of  the  Sophomore 
year. 

He  studied  law  at  home  in  the  office  of  Robinson  &  Jones, 
and  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  removed,  in  November, 
1853,  to  New  Orleans,  where  he  intended  to  begin  practice. 

Meantime  he  obtained  a  position  as  Secretary  to  the 
Quartermaster  of  the  United  States  Army  at  that  post,  and 
while  discharging  this  duty  died  there,  of  yellow  fever,  on 
October  5,  1854,  in  his  23d  year,  after  five  days'  illness. 

Henry  Clay  Blakeslee,  son  of  Elmon  and  Laura 
Blakeslee,  of  New  Haven,  was  born  on  January  21,  1831. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1852  393 

He  became  a  civil  engineer,  and  was  employed  on  the 
Great  Western  Railroad  in  Canada,  and  on  the  Chicago  & 
Rock  Island  Railroad  in  Illinois.  His  last  employment  was 
as  freight  clerk  in  Chicago. 

On  the  evening  of  August  19,  1857,  he  jumped  from  his 
bedroom  window  on  the  fourth  floor  of  the  Metropolitan 
Hotel  in  Chicago,  and  was  instantly  killed.  It  was  sup- 
posed that  he  was  a  somnambulist. 

Lewis  Howe,  the  youngest  child  of  Jonas  and  Anna 
(Mead)  Howe,  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  was  born  on 
August  6,  1827. 

He  was  married,  on  November  3,  1852,  to  Mary  Louisa, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  A.  (Mead)  Brush,  of  Green- 
wich, and  taught  school  for  the  following  winter  in 
Cromwell. 

In  the  spring  of  1853  he  established  in  Greenwich  a 
family  boarding-school  for  boys,  which  he  continued  until 
his  death  there,  on  July  3,  1857,  in  his  30th  year. 

He  left  a  son  (who  died  in  infancy)  and  a  daughter. 

His  widow  married,  in  October,  1864,  Dr.  Benjamin  F. 
Bassett  (Yale  1847),  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  whom  she 
survived. 

George  Edward  Hurd,  son  of  Ezekiel  Hurd,  of  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  was  born  on  August  14,  1830,  and  entered 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  1851,  which  he  left  on  account  of 
ill  health  in  Junior  year,  returning  a  year  later  to  the  next 
Class. 

In  October,  1853,  he  entered  the  General  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  New  York,  and  on 
his  graduation  there  was  admitted  to  Deacon's  orders,  on 
July  6,  1856,  by  Bishop  Chase,  of  New  Hampshire. 

His  health,  never  vigorous,  began  to  fail  more  seriously 
about  this  time,  and  he  died  in  Dover  on  October  16,  1858, 
in  his  29th  year. 


394  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

David  Ogden  Morehouse,  son  of  John  G.  Morehouse, 
of  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  April  28,  1831. 

He  taught  for  a  year  after  graduation  in  Westville,  a 
suburb  of  New  Haven,  and  then  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine in  Philadelphia. 

In  the  spring  of  1854  he  was  teaching  in  York,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  was  drowned  while  bathing,  on  May  25,  in 
his  24th  year. 

Angelo  Wood  North,  son  of  Darius  and  Olivia  North, 
at  one  time  of  New  Haven,  was  born  in  Watertown,  Con- 
necticut, on  December  21,  1831.  His  residence  was  in 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  while  in  College. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  University  of 
Kentucky,  in  Louisville,  but  died  there,  from  typhoid  fever, 
on  July  2,  1853,  in  his  22d  year.  His  was  the  first  death 
in  the  Class. 

CLASS  OF    1853 

Isaac  Holt  Hogan,  the  younger  son  of  Isaac  and  Nancy 
(Holt)  Hogan,  was  born  on  November  16,  1828,  in  Glen- 
ville,  near  Schenectady,  New  York.  After  a  part  of  a  year 
in  Jefl^erson  College,  Pennsylvania,  he  entered  Yale  in  the 
spring  of  1850.  The  family  residence  was  then  in  Middle- 
port,  Niagara  County.  He  delivered  the  Valedictory  Ora- 
tion at  graduation. 

He  went  to  Marshall,  Michigan,  to  teach  school,  and  there 
contracted  pulmonary  disease  which  developed  rapidly. 
He  died  in  Middleport  on  May  29,  1855,  in  his  27th  year. 

John  Andrew  Williamson  Jones,  son  of  John  W.  and 
Mary  A.  (Breneman)  Jones,  of  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania, 
was  born  on  September  4,  1832,  and  entered  Yale  in  May 
of  the  Freshman  year. 

He  studied  law  at  home,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
June,    1856.     After   practicing   in    Harrisburg    for  a    few 


YALE  COLLEGE,  CLASS  OF  1853  395 

months  he  went  to  Kansas  Territory  in  September  as 
private  secretary  to  Governor  John  W.  Geary.  Thence  he 
removed  in  1857  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  where  he  practiced 
his  profession  and  engaged  in  business  as  a  land-agent. 
After  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  acted  as  Clerk  of 
the  Adjutant  General  and  of  the  Provost  Marshal  of  the 
State. 

He  subsequently  returned  to  Harrisburg,  and  finally  set- 
tled in  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  where  he  was  married,  on 
August  24,  1869,  to  Belle  Englesfield. 

Some  years  later  he  was  placed  in  one  of  the  Indiana 
State  Hospitals  for  the  Insane,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of 
paralysis,  which  seriously  affected  his  mind.  He  died  in 
the  hospital  on  March  28,  1889,  in  his  57th  year. 

A  son  survived  him.     His  wife  married  a  second  time. 

Edward  Walden,  son  of  Judge  Ebenezer  and  Susanna 
(Marvin)  Walden,  of  Buffalo,  New  York,  was  born  on 
February  13,  1832. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  at  home,  but  died  suddenly, 
after  a  few  hours'  illness,  at  his  father's  summer  residence, 
on  the  shore  of  Lake  Erie,  on  July  19,  1854,  in  his  23d  year. 

William  Rankin  Webb,  son  of  Wyatt  C.  and  Ann 
Davenport  (Rankin)  Webb,  of  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  was 
born  on  March  25,  1832,  and  entered  Yale  from  Georgetown 
College  in  1850. 

He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Garrett  Davis,  in  Paris, 
Kentucky,  and  entered  on  practice  in  his  native  town.  In 
1856  he  was  a  Presidential  elector,  and  voted  for  Fillmore. 

In  July,  1862,  he  joined  the  Confederate  army  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  cavalry  command  of  General  John  H.  Morgan. 
He  died  on  December  29,  1862,  in  his  31st  year,  from 
wounds  received  in  a  skirmish  near  Glasgow,  Kentucky. 

He  was  buried  in  Georgetown.     He  was  unmarried. 


396  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

CLASS    OF     1854 

Charles  Henry  Barrett,  son  of  James  and  Miriam 
Barrett,  of  Rutland,  Vermont,  was  born  on  May  13,  1833. 

He  studied  medicine  in  Rutland  and  Boston,  and  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  Harvard  University  in  1858.  He 
at  once  began  practice  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  where  he  mar- 
ried, on  November  16,  1864,  Frances  M.,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Terry  Taylor. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  he  removed  to  Waterloo,  Iowa,  where 
he  was  successful  up  to  the  time  of  his  very  sudden  death, 
on  November  6,  1869,  in  his  37th  year. 

Two  daughters  survived  him.  His  wife  next  married,  in 
April,  1877,  Dr.  Edmund  Andrews,  Professor  of  Chemical 
Surgery  in  the  Chicago  Medical  College. 

Joseph  Raynor  Howell,  son  of  Isaac  Reeves  and  Han- 
nah (Raynor)  Howell,  of  Mattituck,  in  the  township  of 
Southold,  Long  Island,  was  born  at  Middle  Island,  in 
Brookhaven,  on  October  25,  1826,  and  entered  Yale  in  1851. 

He  became  Principal  of  the  Academy  in  Franklinville,  in 
Riverhead,  on  the  borders  of  Southold,  and  married,  on 
October  16,  1854,  Harmietta,  elder  daughter  of  Seth  and 
Harma  Squires,  of  Southampton. 

He  is  supposed  to  have  contracted  typhus  fever  from  a 
dying  brother,  and  died  in  consequence  on  September  13, 
1855,  in  his  29th  year,  at  Squiretown,  in  Southampton. 

He  had  no  children.  His  widow  next  married,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1876,  William  Clark,  of  Centre  Moriches,  in 
Brookhaven. 

Robert  Miller  McClellan,  son  of  Joseph  Parke  and 
Mary  (Ellis)  McClellan,  of  Parkesburg,  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  was  born  on  September  5,  1833.  His  resi- 
dence while  in  College  was  in  Westchester,  in  the  same 
county. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1854  397 

He  spent  the  year  after  graduation  as  a  student  in  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  at  Philadelphia,  and  was  then 
for  two  years  a  private  tutor  near  Darien,  Georgia.  During 
the  year  1858  he  was  in  Europe,  and  on  his  return  kept 
a  select  school  in  Savannah,  Georgia,  until  the  breaking  out 
of  the  war. 

In  September,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Georgia 
Hussars,  a  troop  of  horse  from  Savannah,  which  was 
ordered  to  northern  Virginia.  In  November,  1862,  he  was 
appointed  Assistant  Quartermaster,  with  the  rank  of  Cap- 
tain, in  the  Jeff  Davis  Legion,  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  the  close  of  the  war. 

He  then  opened  a  select  school  in  Macon,  Georgia,  which 
he  continued  until  1870. 

He  then  returned  to  Westchester,  and  in  1871  opened  a 
boarding  school  for  boys.  He  married,  on  December  21, 
1 87 1,  Ella,  daughter  of  W.  T.  Hildrup,  of  Harrisburg. 

His  school  was  successful,  and  he  was  glad  to  be  able  in 
1878  to  lay  it  down  and  resume  medical  studies.  He 
received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Jefferson  Medical 
College  in  March,  1879,  ^^^  practiced  his  profession  in  a 
suburb  of  (West)  Philadelphia  until  his  death  there,  after 
a  short  illness,  from  cerebral  hemorrhage,  on  February  16, 
1887,  in  his  54th  year. 

His  wife  died  on  June  27,  1882.  Their  children,  one  son 
and  two  daughters,  survived  them. 

Charles  Edward  Trumbull,  son  of  Gurdon  and  Sally 
Ann  (Swan)  Trumbull,  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  was 
born  on  October  31,  1832.  He  was  a  brother  of  the  Hon. 
J.  Hammond  Trumbull  (Yale  1842)  and  of  the  Rev.  Henry 
Clay  Trumbull  (M.A.  hon.  Yale  1866).  He  spent  the  first 
two  years  of  his  course  in  Williams  College. 

He  intended  to  enter  the  ministry,  but  gave  up  the  year 
after  graduation  to  the  study  of  literature  and  to  out-of- 
door  exercise.     In  the  summer  of  1855  he  was  prostrated 


398  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

with  typhoid  fever,  and  to  hasten  his  recovery  sailed  for 
Florida  in  December.  A  relapse  occurred  in  February,  and 
he  died  in  Magnolia,  on  March  17,  1856,  in  his  24th  year. 

Jared  Clark  Warner,  son  of  Judge  Ely  Warner  (Yale 
1807),  of  Haddam,  Connecticut,  was  born  on  December  i, 
1829.     His  father  returned  to  Chester,  his  native  place,  in 

1837. 

After  a  brief  business  experience  in  Detroit,  Michigan, 
he  became  Principal  of  Union  Academy  in  East  Saginaw, 
in  June,  1855. 

He  died  there,  of  typhoid  fever,  after  four  weeks'  illness, 
on  August  9,  1855,  in  his  26th  year.  This  was  the  first 
death  in  the  Class. 

Edward  Payson  Whitney,  the  youngest  child  of  Josiah 
Dwight  and  Sarah  (Williston)  Whitney,  of  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  was  bom  on  May  22,  1833.  His  eldest 
brother.  Professor  Josiah  D.  Whitney,  was  graduated  here 
in  1839,  and  another  brother,  William  D.  Whitney,  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Sanskrit  here  in  1854. 

He  taught  for  a  year  after  graduation  in  Williston  Semi- 
nary, Easthampton,  founded  by  his  uncle,  where  he  had 
himself  been  prepared  for  College. 

He  then  pursued  for  three  years  the  study  of  medicine  in 
the  office  of  Dr.  Willard  Parker,  of  New  York,  at  the  same 
time  attending  lectures  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons. 

In  the  fall  of  1858  he  disappeared,  and  nothing  has  ever 
been  learned  of  his  fate. 


CLASS  OF    1858 

Edmund  Morse  Taft,  son  of  Cyrus  and  Lucinda 
(Morse)  Taft,  of  Peacham,  Vermont,  was  born  on  July 
16,  1834.  The  family  removed  soon  after  to  Whitinsville, 
in  Northbridge,  Worcester  County,  Massachusetts. 


YALE  COLLEGE.  CLASS  OF  1 863  399 

He  began  to  teach  school  in  Whitinsville,  but  died  there, 
of  typhoid  fever,  on  October  25,  1858,  in  his  25th  year. 
His  was  the  first  death  in  the  Class. 


CLASS  OF    1863 

Edwin  Henry  Cooper,  son  of  Dr.  Esaias  S.  and  Mary 
E.  (Martin)  Cooper,  of  Henderson,  Knox  County,  Illinois, 
was  bom  on  January  3,  1843,  and  entered  Yale  in  1861  from 
Centre  College,  Danville,  Kentucky. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
83d  Illinois  Volunteers,  acted  as  nurse  for  some  months, 
and  was  then  detailed  as  Assistant  Surgeon  in  charge  of  a 
contraband  camp  in  Clarksville,  Tennessee.  On  May  3, 
1865,  after  examination,  he  was  commissioned  as  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  his  regiment,  and  later  in  the  year  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago. 

He  retired  from  the  army  in  July,  1865,  and  returned 
to  his  practice  in  Henderson. 

He  died  in  Henderson  on  August  14,  1901,  in  his  59th 
year. 

CLASS   OF    1867 

William  Lewis  Stevenson,  son  of  John  Stevenson,  of 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  on  December  10,  1843, 

He  completed  his  studies  for  the  ministry  in  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary,  in  Allegheny  City,  in  1870,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Allegheny  on  April 
14,  1869. 

His  health  failed  in  consequence  of  a  sunstroke,  and  his 
death  occurred  in  July,  1879,  i"  his  36th  year. 

CLASS  OF    1869 

William  Wallace  Audenried,  son  of  George  and  Mary 
Magdalene   (Hagenbach)    Audenried,  was  born  in   North- 


400  BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTICES 

ampton  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  September  i8,  1847,  ^nd 
entered  College  from  Philadelphia. 

In  1870-71  he  was  assistant  superintendent  of  a  coal  com- 
pany in  Minersville,  and  he  then  entered  the  firm  of  E.  V. 
Maitland  &  Co.,  stock-brokers,  in  Philadelphia.  He  was 
also  for  a  time  President  of  the  Columbia  Steel  &  Iron  Com- 
pany, a  corporation  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  railroad 
iron,  in  which  he  held  a  controlling  interest. 

He  died  in  Philadelphia,  after  a  lingering  illness,  during 
which  his  mind  was  affected,  on  January  11,  1889,  in  his 
42d  year. 

He  married,  in  Philadelphia,  on  October  24,  1874,  Ada  B. 
Howard,  who  survived  him  without  children. 

CLASS  OF    1874 

Harvey  Weed,  son  of  Francis  P.  and  Harriet  L.  Weed, 
of  Newburgh,  New  York,  was  born  on  August  12,  1852. 

He  studied  law  in  the  Albany  Law  School,  and  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1876. 

He  practiced  his  profession  in  Newburgh,  and  about  1883 
also  opened  an  office  in  New  York  City,  to  which  place  he 
transferred  his  residence  about  1887. 

He  died  early  in  1892,  in  his  40th  year.  He  was  never 
married. 

CLASS  OF    1875 

Francis  Dudley,  son  of  Uriah  H.  and  Prudence  D. 
(Fish)  Dudley,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  on  March 
17,  1856. 

On  graduation  he  entered  his  father's  business  in  New 
York  City,  and  later  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  U.  H. 
Dudley  &  Co.,  dealers  in  canned  goods. 

He  married,  on  June  9,  1880,  Daisy  Oakes,  daughter  of 
William  J.  A.  Fuller,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  New 
York,  who  died  suddenly,  in  Orange,  on  August  20,  1881. 


YALE    COLLEGE,    CLASS   OF    1 878  40 1 

In  the  fall  of  1881  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  Colum- 
bia University;  but  on  account  of  his  health  started  on  a 
sailing  vessel  from  New  York  for  San  Francisco,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1882.  He  reached  his  destination  in  May,  1883;  but 
after  three  weeks  on  shore,  realizing  that  the  end  was 
rapidly  approaching,  he  sailed  for  home  on  the  steamer 
Colima  on  June  i,  and  died  two  days  later,  in  his  28th  year. 

Horatio  Townsend  Fairlamb,  the  second  son  of  Charles 
and  Martha  (Jefferis)  Fairlamb,  of  Westchester,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  born  on  August  10,  1853. 

On  graduation  he  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  J.  Smith 
Futhey,  of  Westchester,  and  in  June,  1877,  began  practice 
there.     He  was  eminently  successful  in  his  profession. 

He  married,  on  December  30,  1880,  Mary  F.,  second 
daughter  of  Joseph  P.  Wilson,  of  Westchester. 

In  1889  he  organized  the  Pennsylvania  Mortgage  Invest- 
ment Company,  intended  for  promoting  loans  on  mort- 
gages of  real  estate  in  Eastern  Washington  and  Northern 
Idaho ;  and  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Spokane,  as  the 
western  manager  of  the  corporation. 

He  died  in  Spokane  on  June  14,  1892,  in  his  39th  year. 
His  wife  survived  him,  with  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 


CLASS  OF    1878 

Philip  Keller,  son  of  Daniel  and  Anna  Keller,  was  born 
in  Numidia,  Columbia  County,  Pennsylvania,  on  August  22, 
1853,  ^^^  entered  Yale  from  Ashland,  Schuylkill  County. 

He  studied  law  in  Ashland,  and  after  his  admission  to 
the  bar  in  1881,  practiced  his  profession  there. 

He  married,  on  October  22,  1889,  Belle,  daughter  of 
Wellington  and  Mary  Jones,  of  Auburn,  Schuylkill  County. 

After  several  years  of  mental  weakness,  he  died  in  Ash- 
land on  August  7,  1894,  at  the  age  of  41.     His  wife  sur- 
vived him,  without  children. 
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CLASS    OF    I< 


Andrew  Penrose  Lusk  Dull,  son  of  James  Junkin  and 
Elizabeth  McKinley  (Lusk)  Dull,  of  Harrisburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  born  on  October  6,  1857. 

After  a  brief  employment  in  the  office  of  the  Lochiel 
Rolling  Mill  Company,  he  was  connected  with  the  Mechan- 
ics' Bank  of  Harrisburg  until  1891,  when  his  health  required 
a  rest. 

He  married,  on  November  22,  1888,  Helen  Montgomery 
Boyd,  of  Harrisburg. 

He  died  in  Harrisburg  on  October  24,  1893,  at  the  age 
of  z^. 

CLASS   OF    1884 

James  Martin  Dawson,  son  of  James  Dawson,  of 
Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  was  born  on  April  26,  1861. 

He  died  in  Wilmington,  of  typhoid  fever,  in  1888,  after 
a  long  and  painful  illness,  which  had  affected  him  both 
mentally  and  physically. 


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Class 

1835  Abbott,  John  S. 

1846  Adams.  Charles  G. 

183 1  Adams,  James  U. 
1850  Adams,  John  I.  I. 
1838  Adams,  John  McN. 
1825  Adams,  Ripley  P. 
1821  Adee,  Augustus  A. 

1837  Albertson,  Joseph  C. 
1827  Allen,  Alldis  S. 
1823  Allen,  Bela 

1847  Allison,  Samuel  P. 

1842  Alter,  Joseph  H. 

1 82 1  Anderson,  James 

1830  Anderson,  John  G. 

1843  Andrew,  Samuel  W. 
1829  Apthorp,  George  H. 

1832  Archer,  Henry  W. 

1848  Arnold,  Austin 
184!  Arnold,  William  W. 
1840  Ashburner,  William  E. 
1852  Atwood,  James 

1869  A.udenried.  William  W. 

1822  Avery,  Elijah  M. 

1840  Babcock,  James  S. 

1847  Bacon,  Benjamin  W. 

1833  Bacon,  Epaphroditus  C. 

1838  Bacon,  Francis 

1836  Bacon,  Henry  W. 
1817  Bailey,  Ebenezer 

1836  Bailey,  Thomas 
1847  Baker,  Anthony  W. 

1829  Baker,  Oliver 

1831  Baker,  Otis 

1832  Baker,  Samuel  G. 

1830  Baker,  William  N. 
1820  Baldwin,  Abraham 
1842  Baldwin,  Edward  L. 

1833  Baldwin,  Michael 

1847  Baldwin,  Roger  S. 

1837  Baldwin,  William  B. 
1829  Baltzell,  Charles  J. 

1842  Bangs,  Allen 

1843  Baratte,  Julius  A. 

1848  Barnard,  John  A. 


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Barnard.  Thomas  A.  275 

Barnes,  Edward  F.  84 

Barnes,  Romulus  181 

Barrett,  Charles  H.  396 

Barstow,  Ephraim  T.  320 

Bartholomew,  Isaac  84 

Bartlett,  Shubael  F.  236 

Bates,  John  377 

Bates,  Talcott  102 

Beach,  John  C.  236 

Beardsley,  Cyrus  H.  29 

Beasley,  Peter  R.  308 
Beaumont,  George  A.  O.      249 

Beecher,  George  182 

Beers,  John  P.  17 

Beirne,  Christopher  J.  308 

Belden,  Lemuel  W.  67 

Belden,  Thomas  121 

Bellinger,  Frederick  P.  359 

Bellinger,  Jacob  W.  320 

Benedict,  Alanson  68 

Biddle,  Thomas  B.  296 

Bigelow,  George  N.  58 

Bigelow,  William  A.  354 

Bingham,  Gideon  326 

Birdseye,  Henry  C.  341 

Bishop,  Alexander  H.  206 

Bispham,  John  B.  207 

Bissell,  Jonathan  H.  45 

Blackman,  Ebenezer  17 

Blakeslee,  Henry  C.  392 

Blanchard,  Nathaniel  69 

Blincoe.  Charles  W.  341 

Bliss,  David  N.  217 

Boardman,  John  F.  195 

Boardman,  William  R.  296 

Bogart,  William  H.  147 

Booth,  Reuben  i 

Borrowe,  Samuel  30 

Botsford.  David  31 

Bowen,  George  T.  ^ 

Bowman,  Samuel  S.  354 

Boyd,  James  McH.  217 

Brace,  Joab  275 

Brainard,  Eleazar  31 


404 

Class 

1823 
1824 
1822 
1826 
1835 
1827 
185 1 
1816 
1840 
1826 
1829 
1848 
1826 
1837 
1819 
1819 
1828 
1819 
1830 
1818 
1851 
1834 
1824 
1823 
1833 
1822 
1844 
1828 

1823 
1850 
1838 
1837 
1828 
1822 
1829 
1838 
1821 
1829 
1831 
1819 
1816 
1826 
1817 
1821 
1821 
1828 
1831 
182 1 
1826 
1830 
1827 


Brewer,  Edwin 
Brewer,  Eliab 
Brewster,  Joseph  M. 
Bridgman,  Frederick 
Briggs,  James  C. 
Brinckerhoff,  George 
Brinsmade,  Horatio  W. 
Brinton,  John  S. 
Bristol,  Simeon  C. 
Bronson,  Jesse 
Bronson,  Thomas 
Brown,  Clinton  C. 
Brown,  Thaddeus 
Buck,  Charles 
Buffett,  William  L, 
Bulkley,  Ichabod 
Bull,  George  F. 
Bull,  Norman 
Burden,  Thomas  L. 
Burgess,  Anson 
Burnham,  Andrew  J. 
Burr,  William  S. 
Burritt,  Stephen  E.  A. 
Butler,  Anthony  W. 
Butler,  William  A. 
Butts,  Asa 
Byne,  Henry 
Bynum,  Benjamin  S. 

Cairns,  William  D. 
Camp,  Clinton 
Campbell,  George  W. 
Caperton,  William  G. 
Carpenter,  Walter 
Carrington,  George 
Carter,  Bernard  M. 
Gary,  Lorenzo 
Case,  William 
Catlett,  Fairfax 
Champion,  George 
Chapin,  Graham  H. 
Chapman,  Epaphras 
Chapman,  James  D. 
Chase,  George 
Chase,  Paine  W. 
Chase,  Simeon 
Chauncey,  Charles 
Chester,  Orlando 
Child,  Asa 
Church,  Ebenezer 
Church,  Edward 
Clagett,  John  M. 


INDEX 

Page 

Class 

102 

183 1 

121 

1825 

85 

1833 

147 

1831 

256 

1850 

166 

1830 

388 

1818 

I 

1816 

308 

1824 

148 

1823 

196 

1819 

378 

1846 

148 

1816 

276 

1840 

46 

1842 

46 

1823 

183 

1833 

47 

1841 

207 

1840 

31 

1832 

388 

1822 

250 

1818 

122 

1826 

103 

1820 

237 

1827 

85 

1826 

342 

1863 

183 

1838 

1818 

103 

1847 

385 

1829 

286 

1826 

276 

1821 

183 

1821 

86 

1827 

197 

1847 

286 

1850 

69 

1827 

197 

1823 

217 

1822 

48 

1822 

2 

1845 

149 

1824 

17 

1833 

70 

1847 

70 

1844 

183 

1833 

218 

1828 

70 

1845 

ISO 

1816 

208 

1816 

166 

1843 

Page 

Clapp,  John  M.  219 

Clark,  Abner  P.  138 

Clark,  Noah  B.  237 

Clark,  Samuel  W.  219 

Clarke,  Edward  P.  386 

Clarke,  George  R.  208 

Clary,  Henry  32 

Cleaveland,  William  P.  3 

Cleveland,  Richard  F.  122 

Cloud,  John  W.  104 

Coit,  David  S.  48 

Coit,  James  J.  359 

Coit,  Joseph  L.  3 

Colclough,  Bagenal  309 

Coleman,  Robert  327 

Coles,  Oliver  104 

Colt,  John  O.  238 

Colton,  David  B.  320 

Colton,  George  H.  309 

Colton,  John  O.  229 

Colton.  Walter  87 

Cone,  Francis  H.  32 

Cone,  Frederick  T.  150 

Cone,  Theodore  C.  58 

Cooke,  Joseph  P.  166 

Cooley,  Jefferson  150 

Cooper,  Edwin  H.  399 

Corbyn,  Almon  D.  287 

Cordes,  James  J.  33 

Cotton,  John  366 

Cowles,  Albert  S.  197 

Cowles,  Elijah  151 

Cowles,  George  71 

Cowles,  Samuel  H.  72 

Cox,  Adam  T.  167 

Craig,  Simeon  A.  367 

Crane,  George  W.  386 

Crocker,  Zebulon  167 

Crosby,  Daniel  105 

Croswell,  Sherman  88 

Croswell,  William  89 

Crowell,  Josiah  B.  354 

Crozier,  Robert  123 

Crump,  John  238 

Cumings,  George  W.  367 
Cunningham,  James  L.          342 

Currier,  John  M.  238 

Curtiss,  Rodney  184 

Cushman,  Isaac  L.  354 

Cuthbert,  John  A.  3 

Cutler,  George  Y.  3 

Cutler,  James  P.  335 


Class 

1816  Dart,  Ashbel 

1821  Davenport,  George  F. 
1837  Davenport,  Philip  A. 

1836  Daves,  James  McK. 
1833  Davis,  Benjamin  F. 
1835  Davis,  John 

1835  Dawes,  Rowland 
1884  Dawson,  James  M. 
1840  Day,  Charles 

1832  DeForest,  Henry  A. 

1831  DeForest.  Samuel  S. 

1837  Deming,  William  S. 

1826  Denison,  Zina 
1820  Deshon,  Francis  B. 

1832  Dewey,  Amasa 
1820  Dewey,  Daniel  N. 

1828  DeWint,  Peter  C. 

1827  DeWolf,  Allen  M. 

1829  Dixon,  Robert 

1838  Dodd,  Albert 

1843  Donnelly,  James  B. 

1844  Doolittle,  Oswin  H. 

1828  Douglas,  George  H. 

1822  Douglas,  Sutherland 

1820  Dow,  James  G. 

1828  Downer,  David  R. 

1830  Drake,  Richard  G. 

1825  Dubose,  Isaac 
1875  Dudley,  Francis 
1881  Dull,  Andrew  P.  L. 

1823  Duncan.  John  N. 

1821  Duncan,  Lucius  C. 

1833  Durand,  William  M. 

1829  Dutch.  Aaron  H. 
1840  Dwight,  John  B. 
1827  Dwight,  Timothy  E. 

1826  Dwight,  William  C. 

1826  Earle,  Winthrop 

1836  Eaton,  William  H. 

1837  Eaton,  William  P. 

1817  Edmiston,  Joseph  W. 

1829  Edwards,  Benjamin 

1827  Edwards,  Henry  P. 
1842  Edwards,  Newton 

1839  Eldredge,  Charles  St. J. 
1844  Elliot,  William  H. 

1830  Ellsworth,  Oliver 
1829  Ely,  Joseph  M. 
1833  Ely,  Zabdiel  R. 
1832  Ernst.  Frederick  S. 

183 1  Evans,  Thomas  L. 


INDEX 

405 

Page 

Class 

Page 

4 

1832 

Evarts,  John  J. 

232 

72 
277 
263 

1819 

Ewing,  George  W. 

49 

1846 

Fackler,  Calvin  M. 

360 

239 

1875 

Fairlamb,  Horatio  T. 

401 

257 

1839 

Fairman,  William 

297 

257 

1822 

Fanning,  Andrew  M. 

91 

402 

1830 

Fanshaw,  William  H.  M. 

209 

310 

1839 

Faulkner,  Endress 

297 

230 

1844 

Felder,  John  H. 

344 

220 

1822 

Felder,  Nathaniel  F. 

92 

277 

1835 

Fenton,  Joseph  B. 

258 

151 

1836 

Fergusson,  James 

264 

58 

1833 

Field,  Samuel 

240 

230 

1828 

Finch,  Sherman 

185 

58 

1840 

Fisk,  Stuart  W. 

311 

184 

1829 

Fisk,  William  L. 

198 

168 

1838 

Fitch,  Elisha 

289 

197 

1848 

Fitch,  Marshall  M. 

378 

288 

1849 

Foote,  Charles  H. 

382 

336 

1825 

Ford,  Seabury 

139 

343 

1831 

Foster,  Lewis 

220 

184 

1840 

Foster.  Thomas  E. 

311 

90 

1817 

Fowler.  Joseph 

18 

59 

1834 

Fowler,  Joseph 

250 

185 

1822 

Fowler,  Joseph  R. 

92 

208 

183 1 

Fowles,  James  H. 

221 

138 

1846 

Franklin,  Thomas  L 

360 

400 

1834 

French,  Henry  S.  G. 

250 

402 

1832 

Frisbv,  Tames  E. 

232 

105 

1838 

Fuller,  Seth 

289 

72 

1825 

Fulton,  William  M. 

140 

239 
197 

1843 

Gachet,  Charles  N. 

336 

310 

1835 

Gager,  Charles  A. 

258 

169 

1830 

Galatti,  Pantoleon  G. 

209 

151 

1826 

Gale,  Charles  C.  P. 

152 

1823 

Gallup,  Nathan 

106 

152 

1824 

Gardiner,  David  J. 

124 

264 

1817 

Gay,  William  C. 

18 

278 

1826 

Gaylord,  Samuel 

133 

18 

1818 

Gere,  Edward 

ii 

198 

1827 

Gere.  William 

169 

169 

1843 

Gibbs.  James  B. 

336 

Z27 

1817 

Gilbert,  Charles  C. 

18 

297 

1839 

Gilbert.  John  M. 

298 

343 

1818 

Gilbert,  Joseph  M. 

34 

209 

1829 

Gilbert,  Matthew  J. 

199 

198 

184I 

Gillett.  Augustus  C. 

321 

240 

1828 

Gleason.  Henry 

185 

231 

1816 

Glover.  Abiel  B. 

5 

220 

1833 

Goddard.  John  C. 

241 

4o6 


INDEX 


Class 

1834  Gold,  Job  S. 

1831  Goodloe,  David  S. 

1849  Goodrich,  Charles  R. 

1821  Goodrich,  Joseph 

1838  Goodwin,  David  E. 

1821  Goodwin,  Roswell 

1833  Gould,  Alfred  K. 
1842  Gould,  Edward  Y. 
1845  Gould,  James  G. 
1824  Gould,  James  R. 
1826  Graves,  Horatio  N. 
1830  Greig,  David 

1819  Gridley,  Elnathan 

1847  Gridley,  Horatio  W. 

1822  Griffin,  Francis 
1824  Griffin,  George 
1824  Griswold,  George 

1826  Griswold,  James  B. 

1817  Griswold,  Jared 

1829  Griswold,  "Richard  S. 
1836  Grout,  Jonathan 

1840  Grout,  Joseph  M. 

1844  Guernsey,  William  H. 
1847  Gunton,  William  A. 

1827  Gurley,  Charles  G. 

1830  Gwynne,  Abram  E. 

1847  Haight.  Dugald  C. 

1834  Hall,  Daniel  E. 

1839  Hall,  David  N. 

1841  Hall,  Frederic 

1831  Hall,  Junius 

1823  Hamilton,  Frederick  W. 
1830  Han  ford,  Frederick  A. 

1845  Harper,  William  R. 

1848  Harrison,  Edward  B. 
1836  Harrison,  James 

1822  Hart,  Henry  C. 

1823  Hart,  Simeon 
1851  Haskell,  Charles 

1849  Haskell,  Henry  M. 
1826  Hassard,  Samuel 

1818  Haughton,  Richard 
1826  Hawkins,  Alexander  T. 

1824  Hayes,  Amasa  A. 

1825  Hayes,  William  R. 
1830  Hays,  Thomas  A. 
185 1  Hebard,  Albert 
1848  Hedges,  Henry-  C. 
1821  Hempsted,  John  A. 

1842  Hennen,  William  D. 


Page 

Class 

Page 

252 

1824 

Herrick,  John  P. 

125 

221 

1842 

Higginbotham,  Jesse  A. 

329 

382 

1819 

Hill,  Joseph  A. 

50 

7Z 

1830 

Hillard,  David  J. 

211 

289 

1851 

Hills,  James  R. 

389 

1Z 

1829 

Hinckley,  Asa  J. 

199 

251 

1833 

Hinsdale,  Abel  K. 

241 

328 

1821 

Hinsdale,  Theodore 

75 

355 

1840 

Hitchcock,  Ambrose  N. 

312 

124 

1847 

Hodges,  Francis  L. 

369 

153 

1853 

Hogan,  Isaac  H. 

394 

210 

1828 

Holcomb,  Hiram 

186 

4Q 

1840 

Holcombe,  Gustavus  A. 

312 

368 

1824 

Holland,  William  M. 

126 

92 

1822 

Holley,  John  M. 

93 

124 

1847 

Hollister,  George  W. 

369 

124 

1849 

Hollister,  Horace 

383 

154 

1848 

Hollister,  Shelton 

379 

19 

1833 

Holmes,  Silas 

242 

199 

1816 

Holmes,  Uriel 

5 

264 

1823 

Holt,  Eleazar 

107 

311 

1827 

Hooker,  Richard 

170 

345 

1836 

Hopkins,  Arthur  M. 

266 

368 

1826 

Hopkins,  Asa  T. 

155 

170 

1851 

Hopkins,  George 

390 

298 

1846 

Horton,  William  W. 

361 

1836 

Hotchkiss,  Jacob  T. 

266 

368 

1830 

Hough,  Alfred 

211 

252 

1819 

Hovey,  Sylvester 

50 

299 

1827 

Howard.  John  L. 

171 

321 

1833 

Howe,  Cheney 

243 

222 

1835 

Howe,  James  H. 

259 

106 

1852 

Howe,  Lewis 

393 

210 

1854 

Howell,  Joseph  R. 

396 

356 

1824 

Hubbard,  Austin  0. 

126 

378 

182^ 

Hubbard,  Jabez  B. 

141 

265 

1829 

Hubbard,  John  M. 

200 

92 

1819 

Hubbard,  Samuel  D. 

51 

106 

1824 

Hudson,  J.  Trumbull 

128 

388 

1824 

Hulbert,  William  E. 

128 

382 

1837 

Hull,  John  G. 

278 

154 

1818 

Humphreys,  Hector 

35 

34 

1837 

Hunt,  Addison  L. 

279 

155 

1827 

Huntington,  George 

172 

125 

1828 

Huntington,  Peter  L. 

186 

140 

1817 

Huntington,  Rufus 

19 

211 

1839 

Hurd,  Alva  A. 

299 

389 

1852 

Hurd,  George  E. 

393 

379 

1849 

Hurlbut,  Joseph 

383 

74 

1837 

Hyatt,  Robert  U. 

279 

328 

1820 

Hyde,  Joseph 

59 

INDEX 

Class 

Page 

Class 

1834 

Ingersoll,  John  V. 

252 

182I 

1817 

Ingersoll,  Samuel  B. 

20 

1825 

1820 

Isham,  Chester 

59 

183I 

1824 

Ives,  Matthew 

129 

1842 

1822 

Ives,  Thomas  E. 

93 

1818 
1844 

1823 

Jameson,  Robert 

107 

1818 

1828 

Jenkins,  Joseph 

187 

1847 

1847 

Jennings,  Lewis  B. 

370 

1838 

1818 

Johns,  Thomas  H. 

36 

1839 

1816 

Johnson,  Charles  J. 

5 

1849 

1820 

Johnson,  Daniel  H. 

60 

185 1 

1834 

Johnston,  William  S. 

253 

1847 

1830 

Jones,  Edward  B. 

212 

1829 

Jones,  George  N. 

200 

1816 

1853 

Jones,  John  A.  W. 

394 

1854 

1818 

Jones,  John  N. 

36 

1821 

1838 

Jones,  Seaborn  A. 

290 

1820 

1840 

Judd,  Chauncey  P. 

312 

1847 

1836 

Judd,  Sylvester 

267 

1847 

1821 

Judson,  Albert 

75 

1831 

!85i 

Judson,  David  L. 

390 

1827 

1826 

Judson,  Everton 

156 

1844 
1847 

1816 

Kain,  John  H. 

6 

1847 

1846 

Keas,  Isaac  N. 

361 

182s 

187S 

Keller,  Philip 

401 

1844 

1840 

Kelley,  John  S. 

313 

1833 

1825 

Kennedy,  Algernon  S. 

141 

185 1 

1845 

Kennedy,  Thomas 

356 

1847 

1816 

Kerr,  Joseph 

6 

1836 

1816 

Kimball,  James 

7 

1839 

1843 

King,  Josiah  T. 

337 

1839 

1832 

Kingsley,  George  T. 

232 

1817 

1844 

Kinney,  Henry 

345 

1839 

1827 

Kirby,  William 

172 

1839 

1819 

Kortright,  Robert 

52 

1829 

1847 

1840 

Lamb,  David 

313 

1838 

1850 

Lamb,  Richard 

387 

1823 

1822 

Lathrop,  William 

94 

1817 

1838 

Law,  William  L. 

290 

1827 

1842 

LeConte,  Porter 

329 

1825 

1820 

Lee,  Richard  H. 

60 

1826 

1816 

Lemon,  Sheldon 

7 

1829 

1821 

Lester,  William 

76 

1828 

1829 

Lewis,  George  R. 

201 

1840 

1824 

Lewis,  James 

129 

1833 

1828 

Lewis,  James  D. 

187 

1826 

183 1 

Lewis,  William  B. 

223 

1824 

1817 

Linsley,  James  H. 

21 

1836 

1846 

Linton,  Stephen  D. 

361 

1827 

Little,  Thomas  P. 
Livingston,  Charles  O. 
Lockwood,  Rufus  A. 
Long,  Charles 
Loomis,  Earl 
Lovell,  Joseph 
Lowrey,  Romeo 
Lyman,  William  H. 
Lynde,  Charles  J. 
Lynde,  Watts  S. 
Lyon,  Aaron 
Lyon,  George  W. 
Lyon,  Lucius  H. 

McClellan,  George 
McClellan,  Robert  M. 
McCullough,  William  B. 
McElhenny,  James 
McKce,  William  S. 
McLallen,  Philemon 
McNeill,  Hector 
McPhail,  John  B. 
Macy,  William  A. 
Manigault,  Charles  H. 
Manning,  Nathaniel  W. 
March,  John  C. 
Marsh,  Samuel  D. 
Marshall,  Samuel  D. 
Martin,  Benjamin  F. 
Martin,  Hezekiah  D. 
Martin,  John  G. 
Mason,  Ebenezer  P. 
Mason,  Henry  T. 
Mason,  James  F. 
Mason,  John  F. 
Masters,  Justus  S. 
Mastin,  William  J. 
Matson,  Nathaniel 
May,  Edward  R. 
Mead,  Ebenezer 
Mead,  Samuel  H. 
Mead,  William  E. 
Mead,  Zechariah 
Meech.  Stephen  W. 
Meredith,  George  S. 
Metcalfe,  Volney 
Miller,  Charles  J. 
Miller,  Phineas  T. 
Mills,  Asahel  P. 
Mills,  Charles  L. 
Mills,  Frederick  D. 
Mills,  Frederick  I. 


407 

Page 

76 
142 
224 
330 

36 
346 

37 
370 
291 
300 
384 
390 
370 

7 
396 
77 
61 
371 
371 
224 

173 
347 
371 
371 
142 

348 
243 
391 
372 
268 
300 
301 

22 
301 
302 
201 
372 
291 
108 

22 

174 
142 

157 
201 
188 

314 

244 

157 
130 
268 

174 


4o8 


INDEX 


Class 

1839  Mills,  John  Y. 

1832  Minor,  Lucius  H. 
1846  Minor,  William 

1835  Mitchell,  Algernon  S. 
1820  Mitchell,  Matthew  E. 

1843  Moody,  Thomas  H. 

1833  Moore,  Nathaniel  S. 
1852  Morehouse,  David  O. 
1826  Morgan,  Allen  C. 
1833  Morgan,  George  J. 
1831  Morgan,  Thomas  N. 

1840  Morris,  DeWitt  C. 
1816  Morris,  James  VanC. 
1818  Morris,  Richard  R. 
1837  Morse,  George  B. 
1822  Morson,  Arthur  A. 

1836  Moseley,  Samuel 
1848  Mowry,  David  S. 

1846  Mulford,  David  H. 

1844  Mullikin,  John  C. 

1847  Munn,  John 
1843  Munro,  Edward 

1836  Murdock,  Charles  E. 
1820  Murray.  Washington 

1837  Musgrave,  Christopher 

1830  Neely,  Lorenzo 

1816  Nevins,  William 

1833  Newbold,  James  E. 
1824  Nichols,  George 
1828  Nicoll,  Alexander  Y. 
1852  North,  Angelo  W. 
1830  Nott,  Abraham  P. 

1843  Nourse,  John  F. 
1824  Noyes,  Burr 

1834  Noyes,  John 
1837  Noyes,  John  A. 
1840  Noyes,  Oscar  T. 

1827  Oaks,  William  B. 

1817  Ogden,  Abraham 
1816  Olcott,  Charles 

1844  Olmsted,  Alexander  F. 

1844  Olmsted,  Denison 
1839  Olmsted,  Francis  A. 

1845  Olmsted,  John  Howard 
1847  Olmsted,  John  Hull 
183s  Olney,  George  W. 

1818  Orr,  Isaac 
1820  Orr,  Robert 

1839  Packard,  Cullen 

1820  Paddock,  Seth  B. 


Page 

Class 

302 

1837 

233 

1842 

361 

1827 

259 

182s 

61 

1839 

2>Z7 

1827 

244 

1836 

394 

1819 

158 

1826 

245 

1830 

224 

181 7 

314 

1817 

8 

1828 

38 

1823 

279 

1843 

94 

1823 

269 

1840 

380 

1828 

362 

1833 

349 

1830 

372 

1824 

338 

1846 

269 

1842 

62 

1840 

280 

1827 

1824 

212 

1820 

8 

1826 

245 

1849 

130 
188 

1825 
1826 

394 

1823 

212 

1833 

338 

1820 

131 

1831 

253 

1848 

280 

1838 

315 

1834 

1827 

174 

1823 

'23 

1839 

9 
349 
350 
302 
357 
2,72 
260 
38 
62 

1828 
1819 
1833 
1841 
1847 
1832 
1837 
1817 

1818 

303 

1836 

62 

1836 

Page 


Palmer,  Coddington  B. 

280 

Parker,  Charles  C. 

330 

Parker,  Charles  T. 

175 

Parker,  Ebenezer 

143 

Parker,  Eliphalet 

303 

Parker,  George  G. 

175 

Parkhurst,  Daniel  B. 

270 

Parkhurst,  Jeremy 

53 

Parmelee,  William 

159 

Patton,  Charles  H. 

212 

Patton,  Robert  B. 

23 

Payne,  Benjamin  E. 

24 

Payson,  John  O. 

188 

Peck,  Henry  E. 

108 

Peck,  William  S. 

338 

Peet,  Stephen 

109 

Pelton,  Cale 

315 

Penniman.  Silas  M. 

189 

Perkins,  Alfred 

245 

Perkins,  Alfred  E. 

213 

Perkins,  George  W. 

131 

Perkins,  George  W.  T. 

362 

Perkins,  Jacob 

331 

Perkins,  William 

315 

Perry,  John  M.  S. 

176 

Perry,  Samuel 

132 

Peter,  John  P.  C. 

63 

Peters,  Hugh 

160 

Peters,  Hugh  F. 

384 

Pettingell,  Amos 

143 

Phelps,  Amos  A. 

160 

Phelps,  Dudley 

III 

Phelps,  John 

246 

Pierson,  Jeremiah  H. 

63 

Pike,  Francis  V. 

224 

Plimpton,  Franklin  L. 

380 

Polk,  Samuel  W. 

292 

Pomroy,  Henrj^ 

254 

Pope,  C.  Milton 

177 

Pope,  LeRoy 

112 

Porter,  Charles  H. 

304 

Porter,  Francis 

189 

Porter,  Theodore  W. 

53 

Potwine,  Stephen  A. 

246 

Powell,   Tohn  D. 

322 

Powell,  William  J. 

27i 

Power,  William 

233 

Powers,  Daniel 

281 

Pratt,  Horace  S. 

24 

Pratt,  Seneca 

39 

Preston,  Henry  K. 

270 

Prindle,  Charles 

270 

INDEX 


409 


Class 

1831 
1840 
1819 


Page    Class 


Pringle,  John  McP. 
Proctor,  Henry  M. 
Purcell,  Edward  H. 


1831  Quenichet,  William  F. 

183 1  Rae,  Luzerne 

1829  Ralli,  Constantine  T. 

1848  Rathbone,  Isaac  T. 

1825  Raymond,  Henry  A. 
1818  Raymond,  James 
1823  Reed,  Edmund  L. 
1822  Reed,  Eli 

1829  Reeve,  Tapping  B. 

1817  Reid,  Jared 

1847  Renshaw,  Thomas  W. 
1842  Rexford,  Steuben 
1822  Reynolds,  Walter 

1838  Ribeiro,  Carlos  F. 

1821  Richards,  John 

1850  Richards,  William  H. 

1848  Richardson,  Robert  M. 

1822  Richmond,  John  R. 

1818  Riddel.  Robert 

1819  Riddell,  Freeman 
1846  Righter,  Chester  N. 
1822  Ripley,  George  B. 
1844  Robb,  John  H. 
1833  Robertson,  Robert 
1837  Robeson,  Abel  B. 

1828  Robinson,  Thomas 

1826  Robinson,  William 
1842  Robinson,  William  W. 

1822  Rockwell,  William 

1823  Rogers,  Timothy 

1829  Rogers,  William  H. 

1820  Rogers,  Zabdiel 
1823  Root,  Judson  A. 

1821  Rose.  Israel  G. 
1846  Rowland,  James  G. 

1851  Rowland,  Tames  L. 
1826  Rowland,  William  F. 
1836  Rowland.  William  S. 

1840  Ruggles,  Charles  J. 

1839  Rumsey,  Daniel  L. 

1822  Russell,  Albert 
1844  Russell,  Hollis 
1817  Rutledge,  Edward 
1819  Rutledge,  John  H. 
1829  Rutledge.  Nicholas  H. 

1841  Sa,  Pompeo  A.  de 
1844  Sammis.  Augustus 


225 
316 

54 

225 

226 
201 

380 
144 

39 
113 

94 
202 

25 

374 

332 

95 

292 

T? 

387 

380 

95 

40 

54 

362 

95 
339 
246 
281 
190 
162 
332 

96 
114 
202 

63 

114 

78 

391 
162 
271  j 
316 
304 

96 
350 

26, 

54! 
202  1 

32; 


351  1832 


839 
824 
816 
841 
827 
830 
846 
837 
830 
831 
821 
822 
822 

844 
822 

837 
825 
824 
829 
848 
816 
829 
827 
823 
837 
835 
821 

835 
828 
840 
826 

833 
83s 
818 
847 
840 
851 
816 
816 
850 
846 
823 
824 
826 
844 
837 
838 
818 
837 
821 


Page 

Sanford,  Julius  E.  305 

Sanford,  Mason  F.  133 

Sanford,  Whiting  10 

Sargent,  Henry  z^Z 

Saunders,  Alanson  177 
Saunders,  Josephus  W.         213 

Savage,  Josiah  363 

Schenck,  George  282 

Scoville,  Charles  E.  214 

Seddon,  Thomas  227 

Shaw,  Oliver  A.  79 

Sheaffe,  George  D.  96 

Sheaffe,  William  F.  97 

Sheldon,  James  A.  351 

Sheldon  William  97 

Sheldon,  William  H.  282 

Sherman,  Charles  B.  145 

Sherwood,  Moses  A.  133 

Sherwood,  William  B.  203 

Shoener,  John  T.  381 

Shoolbred,  John  G.  il 

Shorter,  James  H.  203 

Simonds,  Ephraim  178 

Skinner,  Aaron  N.  115 

Smith,  Azariah  282 

Smith,  Edward  W.  260 

Smith,  Eli  80 

Smith,  Henry  260 

Smith,  Horatio  N.  190 

Smith,  James  316 

Smith,  James  Malcolm  163 

Smith,  James  Monroe  324 

Smith,  Jeremiah  247 

Smith,  John  C.  261 

Smith,  Levi  40 

Smith,  Linus  B.  374 

Smith,  Nelson  317 

Smith,  Noah  391 

Smith,  Peter  11 

Smith,  Phineas  12 

Smith.  Robert  387 

Smith,  Rufus  364 

Smith,  Sidney  116 

Smith,  Theophilus  134 

Smith.  William  163 

Smith,  William  352 

Southall.  Frank  A.  283 

Spalding,  Ebenezer  293 

Spalding,  George  41 

Sparks,  William  A.  284 

Spencer.  Horatio  N.  82 

Sperry.  Corydon  S.  234 


4IO 


INDEX 


Class 

1845  Sprague,  T.  Dwight 

1819  Spring,  Pinckney 

1830  Stanley,  Anthony  D. 
1826  Stanly,  John  W. 
1817  Starr,  Lewis  R. 
1847  Steele,  Henry  S. 
1840  Steere,  George  W. 

1824  Sterling,  Henry  D. 

1820  Sterling,  Thomas  S. 

1846  Stetson,  Albert  E. 
1828  Stevens,  Edwin 

1867  Stevenson,  William  L. 

1816  Stewart,  Charles 
1823  Stiles,  Ezra 
1846  Stiles,  Joseph 

1817  Stillson,  William  B. 

1838  Stoddard,  David  T. 
1833  Stoddard,  John  M.  F. 

1831  Stoddard,  Jonathan 
1820  Stoddard,  Solomon 

1817  Stone,  Roswell 

1842  Stout,  Asher  M. 

1826  Street,  Harlow  L. 
1835  Strong,  Caleb 

1828  Strong,  George  W. 

1843  Strong,  Samuel  W. 

1818  Stuart,  James 
1833  Stuart,  Moses  B. 

1816  Swift,  George 

1842  Swift,  Jared  R. 

1858  Taft,  Edmund  M. 

1825  Taft,  John  A. 

1839  Taintor,  Charles 

1832  Talcott,  Eleazar  P. 

1818  Tallmadge,  John  S. 

1817  Taylor,  Edward 

1843  Taylor,  Franklin 

1829  Tenney,  George  C. 
1820  Terry,  Edward  P. 

1819  Terry,  Shadrach  H. 
1842  Thacher,  James  M. 
1819  Thomas,  William 

1830  Thompson,  Albert 
1822  Thompson,  Edward  G. 

1818  Titus,  Henry  B. 
1817  Titus,  William  U. 
1828  Tolefree,  Robert 
1828  Tomlinson,  Henry  A. 

1833  Torrey,  Charles  T. 
1822  Townsend,  Isaac  H. 

1827  Train,  Elijah  N. 


Page 

Qass 

357 

1824 

55 

1839 

214 

1854 

163 

1818 

26 

1830 

374 

1825 

317 

1829 

135 

64 

1851 

364 

1844 

190 

1829 

399 

1824 

12 

182 1 

117 

1818 

364 

26 

1840 

293 

1853 

247 

1824 

227 

1829 

64 

1827 

27 

1827 

333 

1816 

163 

1819 

261 

1849 

191 

1847 

339 

1854 

41 

1817 

247 

1826 

12 

1845 

333 

1839 

1822 

398 

1853 

145 

1848 

305 

1831 

234 

1874 

41 

1827 

27 

1818 

340 

1834 

203 

1830 

65 

1846 

55 

1848 

334 

1820 

56 

1845 

215 

1836 

97 

1816 

42 

182S 

27 

1823 

191 

1823 

192 

1824 

247 

i8S4 

97 

185 1 

178 

1830 

Page 

Trapier,  William  H.  135 

Trotter,  Silas  F.  306 

Trumbull,  Charles  E.  397 

Turner,  Edward  42 

Turner,  Henry  215 

Tyler,  Edward  R.  145 

Tyler,  Joseph  D.  204 

VanBlarcom,  James  391 

VanBokkelen,  James  E.  353 

VanDyke,  Alfred  W.  204 

VanWyck,  William  135 

Vass,  Edmund  B.  83 

Vaughan,  Henry  42 

Waite,  George  C.  317 

Walden,  Edward  395 

Walker,  Charles  136 

Walker,  Henry  A.  204 

Walker,  Willard  H.  179 

Walsh,  Charles  179 

Walsh,  John  S.  13 

Ward,  Henry  D.  A.  56 

Waring,  Charles  B.  384 

Waring,  Samuel  C.  375 

Warner,  Jared  C.  398 

Warner,  Richard  27 

Washburn,  Elizur  T.  164 

Watkinson,  David  B.  357 

Watson,  John  M.  306 

Webb,  Isaac  98 

Webb,  William  R.      .  395 

Webster,  Cyprian  G.  381 

Webster,  Horace  B.  227 

Weed,  Harvey  400 

Welch,  William  H.  179 

Weld,  Lewis  43 

Welles,  Charles  R.  254 

Welles,  Thomas  N.  215 

Wesson,  Lorenzo  365 

Wetherell,  George  A.  381 

Wheeler,  Fitch  65 

Wheeler,  Ira  B.  3S8 

Wheeler,  Nelson  272 

Wheeler,  Russell  C.  13 

Whitehead.  Cobum  192 

Whiting.  Daniel  W.  117 

Whiting,  Joseph  118 

Whiting,  Spencer  136 

Whitney,  Edward  P.  398 

Whitney,  Emerson  C.  392 

Whitney,  Henry  215 


INDEX 


41  I 


Class 

1820  Whittelsey,  Chaimcey 

1843  Whittelsey,  Ira  D. 

1834  Whittelsey,  Samuel  G. 

1818  Whittlesey,  Frederick 

1822  Whittlesey,  Frederick 

1827  Wickes,  Simon  A. 

1828  Wickham,  Robert  H. 

1823  Wight.  John 

1837  Wilbur,  Seth  T. 

1824  Wilcox,  Chauncey 

1835  Wilcox,  William  W. 
1847  Wildman,  Henry  F. 
1817  Wilkins,  Edmund 
1820  Wilkins,  John  L. 
1822  Wilkins,  William  W. 

1828  Willey,  Sidney  B. 

1819  Williams,  Elias  W. 
1827  Williams,  John  S. 
1822  Williams,  John  W. 
1826  Williams,  Richard  S. 

1829  Williams,  Sidney  P. 

1838  Williams,  Thomas  S. 

1844  Williams,  William  M. 

1839  Williams,  William  P. 


Page  I  Class 


66 
340 
254 
44 
99 
180 
192 
118 
284 
136 
262 

375 

28 

66 

100 

192 

56 

181 

100 

165 

205 

295 

353 

307 


823 
820 
847 
816 
817 
840 
829 
818 
823 


836 
816 
828 
847 
836 
840 
845 
836 

847 
822 
823 


Page 

Williamson,  Samuel  McC.    119 

Williston,  John  P.  66 

Wilson,  John  376 

Winchester,  George  14 

Withers,  Robert  W.  29 

Witmer,  Theodore  B.  318 

Wood,  James  205 

Wood,  Spencer  45 

Woodbridge,  Henry  H.  119 

Woodruff,  Curtiss  295 

Woodruff,  Horace  193 

Woodruff.  Lucius  H.  273 

Woodward,  Rufus  15 

Worcester,  Henry  A.  194 

Worrell,  Cyrus  E.  376 

Wraj'.  James  McA.  273 

Wrighti  Edward  318 

Wright,  George  T.  358 

Wright,  Henry  273 

Yancey,  Antonio  P.  376 

Young,  Guilford  D.  loi 

Young,  Thomas  J.  120 


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